Word: timers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wyman, familiar timer at Harvard meets, awarded his trophy, for the man scoring the most points in dual meet competition, for the third year in a row to Hutter. Hutter retaliated, in behalf of the team, with a new gabardine sport coat for Ulen, who has amazed swimming fans for years by appearing in his "lucky" coat for every meet...
...economic necessities. In western Czechoslovakia are not only three million Germans but deposits of coal and iron. Sitting in Vienna and trying to soothe II Duce with the words "I shall never forget this day." Hitler must be wetting his lips over the proximity of Czechoslovakia. But, superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether Germany or England offers the best security and probably lean toward the latter. With Chamberlain's policy of dictator-bargaining ruined, Eden will be redeemed...
...down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across the field, spiraled up in a chandelle. In the control tower an official timer clicked his watch. After circling a while to let a transport take off, at 1103 p. m. tired Racer Hughes alighted, ran to a telegraph office and sent a wire to Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, awaiting him in Chicago: "Safe and down in Newark." Next day he popped up in Chicago...
...from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled with ever seeing the sun: "For myself I don't care whether it rains...
...clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes on his brass coaching horn without which no fashionable affair of this kind is complete. Mrs. Dibble twirled her whip, and the coach tooled gaily toward Fifth Avenue...