Word: stopwatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...
...quarter of a mile away that the Big Grey is out for a gallop. Another Vanderbilt horse, Find, jogs ahead and then breaks into a gallop. Everson follows with the Big Grey. "I got the Dancer," cries one of the dockers, flicking the stem of his stopwatch. Effortlessly, the big legs stretch out, and the long grey frame glides past the white and gilt distance poles. Twenty-four seconds later the Dancer coasts past the finish line, a nose ahead of Find and snorting only slightly from a brisk but hardly demanding ¼ mile...
...Midvale (Pa.) Steel Works in the 1880s, young Taylor made a discovery: it was the workers, not the bosses, who determined the production rate. The workers could go only so fast because, having learned their jobs by rule of thumb, they wasted steps, motion and time. Using a stopwatch, Taylor found that he could determine the most efficient speed for every operation by breaking it into its component parts...