As usual, kids are not necessarily best time-keepers in the world: They pick really funny times to call me, and more often than not my old cellular phone is out of battery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The police forces they controlled; the police of the railways, of the ships, of their agricultural estates, their time-keepers and order-keepers, outnumbered the neglected little forces of the old country and municipal organisations ten to one. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So many of his bookkeepers, superintendents, time-keepers had graduated into councilmen and state legislators. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Einstein argued that the spectral frequencies of light emitted by atoms can be regarded as standard time-keepers, and thus as substi - tutes for C′1 and C′2. ❋ BANESH HOFFMANN (1968)
The time-keepers had agreed to relieve each other at each stop at the end of a division, one being always on duty, and the other close at hand to verify any record on which a question might arise. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus there is a natural rhythm to a man's walk, depending on the length of his legs, which beat more or less rapidly as they are longer or shorter, like metronomes differently adjusted, or the pendulums of different time-keepers. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Our two head-spikers had a disagreement this morning, and have gone across the yards to settle it," explained one of the time-keepers through his towel. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
It is not the higher animals alone who are time-keepers. ❋ Various (N/A)
From the rear platform the passengers poured out, until only the time-keepers were left on the train, sitting watch in hand to catch the exact record of the stop and the start. ❋ Various (N/A)
Besides, she had a watch already -- one that kept time, unlike most ladies '"time-keepers" -- and a particularly pretty one it was, too; so, that was out of the question at once. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Umpires were improvised for the occasion, and time-keepers, etc., chosen. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)
Many of them were very old, and as time-keepers valueless, the works having suffered more or less from corrosion; but all were richly jewelled and in cases of great worth. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
One of the time-keepers, taking two stop-watches in his hand, started the split-second-hands of both with one movement of his muscles, exactly together. ❋ Various (N/A)
Jack -- having for an office a table at one end of the old freight-car, sleeping in a shelf-like bunk at the other end, and eating in the rough-and-ready diner with the inspectors, foremen, time-keepers and clerks who shared the telegraph-car with him. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)
Editor of "The Railway Age" and one of the official time-keepers on the train. ❋ Various (N/A)
They were, however, of little value as time-keepers, before the application of the spiral spring as a regulator to the balance; the glory of this excellent invention lies between Dr. Hooke and M. Huygens; the English ascribing it to the former, the Dutch, French, ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Having obtained sights on the beach at Cape Clinton for the time-keepers we sailed out of this port by the same track that we entered; and held our course to the northward towards the Northumberland Islands. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
A.sociated P.ess, and two gentlemen who were invited to attend as official time-keepers, Messrs. H.P. Robinson and Willard A. Smith -- the former being the editor of "The Railway A.e," and the latter the ex-chief of the Transportation Department at the Chicago World's Fair. ❋ Various (N/A)
The loss of two anchors prevented our trusting the third while smarting under our misfortune, or we should have anchored under Booby Island to have obtained some sights for the time-keepers, as well as to have furnished the crew with a fresh meal of turtle. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
