time-keepers

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.

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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.

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So many of his bookkeepers, superintendents, time-keepers had graduated into councilmen and state legislators.

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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.

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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.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

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.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

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.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

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.

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Editor of "The Railway Age" and one of the official time-keepers on the train.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

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.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various