Word: stopwatched
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...Timekeeper. He holds a regulation stopwatch and cries out to the Quizzer when 15 seconds have elapsed (the legal time limit between questions...
They shook hands with Explorer Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...
...shadow flicked over the head of the officer on the field. He made the electric connection that set off a stopwatch. In 7.4 seconds the shadow crossed the other end of a kilometre course. Three times more Pitcher Williams took the course, then landed. He had reached a speed of 302.3 miles an hour. The record, because it was made from a gliding drop, is not allowed in the International Competition, but it stands as official in the U. S. No human being has ever before traveled as fast as Lieut. Williams...
With absolute abandon and recklessness, male and female swimmers last week set about revising world's swimming records. The orgy was (literally) stopped only when an official stopwatch broke...
Rosenthal, by way of keeping up his jocose reputation, had challenged Vladimir de Pachmann (TIME, Sept. 10) to a pianistic duel. Whether this will consist of seeing who can run an octave with the greatest speed by the stopwatch or whether they will throw pianos at each other has not been determined. In any case, however, Rosenthal insists that the rules be such that if de Pachmann makes any of his famous remarks during the combat there shall be counted a foul...