Word: timer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIMER," may I have your ear one moment to whisper a slogan which, to me at least, is appropriate for your excellent publication...
Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...himself appeared surprised to find that the tout was over for when the bell rang immediately after he had been counted out he jumped to his feet. His supporters wished to take the matter up with the timer, were prevented from injuring someone by the timely arrival of special patrolmen...
...performing the remarkable feat of running the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat, long before the advent of the crouching start. Besides these and many medals for winning places in various meets, there are several dozen badges presented to him for officiating at athletic meets as referee or timer after his days as an active runner...