Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tables, and shortly after half past seven, play began and continued until nearly midnight. The tables were arranged in two parallel rows, while Mr. Cummings walked up and down between them, making his moves at first with little or no hesitation, but, as the evening wore on, taking more time for consideration. B. A. Gould, '91, F. Irwin, '90, T. W. Balch, '90, H. A. Davis, '91, R. S. Hale, '91, M. A. Black, '90, F. W. Burlingham, '91, O. Everett, '91, and R. D. Brown, '90, were obliged to resign in succession. On the other hand L. W. Chamberlin...
This is the third time the Chess and Whist Club has contended with Mr. Cummings. The first time they won two games out of seven; the second, one game out of eight, and last night the score at the close of the meeting stood two games won, nine lost, and two unfinished...
...that of the two methods now available for introducing electricity, one is dangerous, the other too expensive. The current which supplies the incandescent lights of Cambridge is the same as that used for the are lights, except that it is lessened by reducers. The reducers, however, may at any time get out of order and allow the full current of the street lights to pass through the connecting wires and set fire to the buildings it enters. A current taken from the electric railway system would have the same objections. Another danger from any system with uninsulated wires which...
...change has been made which will allow a man, who has made a touchdown just as time expires, a try at goal...
Rule 16 reads: "Time will be taken out from the moment a touchdown is made until the ball is put in play again in the center of the field. In case the goal is missed, then time is resumed immediately after the failure. The man who holds the ball during the try for goal may be off-side...