Parks, stopwatch in hand, recognized his potential and a bond gradually formed between the two.
The Sheffield volleyball moppers practiced for nine months at a gym with supermarket mops and a stopwatch.
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The Chronograph Racer also has an automotive-appropriate rubber strap and flyback function stopwatch ideal for recording pit-stop times.
As watch connoisseurs know, a chronograph is a watch that also has the capacity to act as a stopwatch.
There's also a back-lit screen that displays both a clock and stopwatch.
Consulting the stopwatch, the C30 Polestar is not particularly quick to 60 mph (officially, 5.9 seconds, 0.3 second quicker than the standard issue).
Boston is where the agony of the hills and the brutality of the stopwatch are pounded into submission by 26.2 miles of glory.
With its bright, clear dial and large plungers and crown, the Bulova stopwatch was considered ideal for double-checking the duration of engine burns.
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The RM 008 chronograph tourbillon (a stopwatch) was so complicated that only one master watchmaker, Fernand Simao, had the skills to put it together.
As we saw in some leaked screenshots, Microsoft also updated its native apps and added some new ones, including a stopwatch and fresh calculator.
Very few timepieces from the lunar surface have been offered in auction, and no other stopwatch is likely to come to the market, Bonhams said.
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Where Taylor used a stopwatch, the Gilbreths used a motion-picture camera.
Scott also had a standard-issue Omega Speedmaster on hand with a stopwatch function, but its dial was dark, and the markings and buttons small, Bonhams said.
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It also has 64 MB of memory, a back-lit screen that incorporates a stopwatch and a clock, and an FM tuner for listening to the radio.
Envirosell, a retail consultancy, has timed shoppers in line with a stopwatch to determine how real wait times compared with how long shoppers felt they had waited.
Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott took a specially made Bulova stopwatch with him to the moon while inside the Command Module Endeavor and the Lunar Module Falcon.
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As a result of Tour rules officials stalking him with a stopwatch, Na and his playing partners each day finished their rounds close behind the groups in front of them.
The Bulova stopwatch has a two-inch main dial with second hand registering up to 30 seconds in increments of 0.1 second, with a subsidiary dial cumulator registering up to 30 minutes.
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Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.
Yet aside from athletes who like to keep track of running or swimming times with a stopwatch, when was the last time you bought a watch that was intended for anything more than telling time and making a fashion statement?
With the 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela joins the ticking stopwatch on "60 Minutes" and the piercing signal of the Emergency Broadcast System in the pantheon of nonmusical sounds that instantly tell you what is on TV even before you've entered the room.
Scored in three movements, their duration determined by chance, his four-minute-and-thirty-three-second work was first presented at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York, where the virtuoso pianist David Tudor performed it by sitting motionless at the piano, counting time on a stopwatch.
But before a single war room phone rings, and prior to the donning of any brand new Nike team caps, a week at the scouting combine in Indianapolis (February 20-26), gives football fans the chance to punch up the NFL Network and join stopwatch-toting GMs in evaluating the latest crop of linemen as though they were livestock.
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