[See prec. and SERVICE.]

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  1.  = TIME-SERVING vbl. sb.

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1883.  Symonds, Shaks. Predec., v. (1900), 150. This freedom from time-service … give[s] a dignity to Heywood’s character.

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  2.  The work done by an observatory staff in daily furnishing the correct time to the community.

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1890.  Smithsonian Rep., 160. Observations of nebulæ and physical observations of Jupiter and Saturn; time service.

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1899.  Athenæum, 29 July, 161/3. The time-service has also occupied part of the energy of the observatory.

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