Word: time-clock
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...time-clock on the Stadium scoreboard was doing some funny things in the last period of Saturday's game. For a while the hand seemed to be stuck, and when we later glanced that way it had moved backwards. Finally we saw an arm rise above the blur of humanity underneath the scoreboard and set back the clock's hand several minutes...
...Committee's task to the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers' Association, meeting in Boston. Said he: "It is not [our] intent to oppose legislation but to accentuate it through the medium of accurate figures on what we get for what we spend. . . . The Committee does not contemplate any time-clock study to determine whether Bill Jones earns his pay spreading tar in highway repair work or whether a department head is worth the salary . . . paid by the State. It has a much broader plan." The assembled publishers cross-examined Editor Shaw for more than an hour, conceded that...
Superintendent McAndrew was trained in New York?not a towering recommendation but, considering the resultant product, no insult. Superintendent McAndrew had, as they say in Chicago, "jazzed up" the Chicago school system mightily in his three years there. Specifically, he had made teachers "punch the time-clock"; had ruled against faculty meetings during classroom hours; held annual public accountings for the efficiency of his subordinates (by assembling representative student groups for quizzing by civic leaders); demanded 100% perfection in basic studies; refused to issue his picture to the press; made annual reports of which the good sense bordered upon...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...
With the increasing subjection of faculty, as of students, to the time-clock regime, the tradition of scholarly leisure becomes more and more precious. As the academic profession falls within the grasp of efficient doers, the triple-distilled essence of Copey's individuality is the more highly prized. His is a distinct personality which stimulates in those whom he touches a wide gamut of emotional vibration, ranging from admiration...