Sentences with phrase «batons in a relay»

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Glickman and Stoller were at least as fast, if not faster, than Draper and Wykoff; and Glickman and Stoller had been specially trained in the 400 relay and its baton pass, which the otherwise exceptional Owens and Metcalfe had not.

I am engaged in the most important relay race in history, passing the baton off to «reliable people» who will continue to pass it on from generation to generation.

Some are the batons for the city's current relay sprint toward gentrification; others live on as they have despite the pressures of a city in full - on boom.

Beautiful Soviet baton - passing in the 4 X 100 relay was overcome by Lewis sprinting as he carried the U.S. team of Lee McRae, Lee McNeill and Harvey Glance to a 37.90 win.

USC botched a baton pass in the mite relay, anchor man John Smith (above) streaked home first and UCLA took the one - day war

After all, USC, with Fred Kuller, Lennox Miller and football stars O.J. Simpson and Earl McCullouch, had practiced together for two seasons, perfecting the baton passes that are so important in such short relays.

Otherwise, catastrophe could follow just like in a relay race when one runner drops the baton and doesn't effectively transfer it to the next runner.

With one of the largest meeting turnouts in recent memory, the gathering took on a festive atmosphere as outgoing president John MacKenzie relayed the baton to incoming leader John Altieri.

Since most of Schmidt's colleagues were scattered across the globe — in Europe, South America and the United States — the group had developed a 24 - hour relay approach to analyzing their telescope data: Schmidt would work all day in the East before emailing the baton over to colleague Adam Riess, then at the University of California, Berkeley, who continued the study during daylight in the West.

The digital baton, which is detailed in a research paper»Em bedding a Crowd inside a Relay Baton: A Case Study in a Non-Competitive Sporting Activity», which will be presented this summer at the «CHI17» conference, contains sensors which broadcast information such as location, speed and distance data to a webpage, allowing people to follow the action on their phone, tablet or PC.

But I'll hand the relay baton over to Mark with this conversational prompt: Was there a movie this year that surprised you by blowing you away, the way Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman did to me back in March?

In the relay race of life, he wanted to make sure we never «dropped the baton» of good character between generations.

Brian K. Vaughan may have started it in his open letter, but others ran with it like the anchorman in a baton relay race at the Olympics.

Think of it as a relay race where runners hand off the baton to the next runner in order to advance down the track — mesh Wi - Fi systems work the same way.