Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another Blue runner trailed him to the tape, while Hayden Channing and Henry March followed him in close order. Their times were respectively 27:16, 27:20, and 27:22. Fritz Rosengarten, the Princeton captain, succeeded in getting only the twelfth spot over the wet course...
...health after a futile attempt to get into the Army during the War, he set out to improve the crude cameras then used in aerial photography. Within a few years he had developed a precision instrument as far removed from the ordinary camera as a micrometer from a tape measure...
...down to realities," pontificated the Wall Street Journal last week on the subject of the franc's devaluation and the promise of international monetary stabilization. Wall Street's more practical reaction to the most significant financial news of the year was to be found on stock-market tape, where its collective opinion is always best expressed. Share prices turned firmly if unspectacularly upward...
During past years the last named purpose has flared with almost sacred zeal. It is a matter of common knowledge that last year one young American successfully wound up the season in possession of a soccer ball, a pair of spectacles, several rolls of adhesive tape, and a varigated assortment of sweaters...
...trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with him to measure trees, always trying to find the biggest in New England. He said that some of those trees that looked as self-important as politicians began to shrink down and look small when they saw him coming with his tape measure. He loved horse racing...