Word: starter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prove anything on a basis of comparative scores. What is probably the weakest college team in the whole country, Delaware, was taken as a starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
...those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto-maker Bosch therefore turned to trucks, racing cars, motor boats, airplanes, continued old prosperity in new markets...
...contest will be officially opened by either Frank Crumit or Helen Kane, star of "Good Boy", both of whom are in town. Whoever of these two acts in the capacity of official starter will stand in the middle of Holyoke Street and wave a crimson and white Harvard banner at the sign of which the two men will dash to their respective windows and begin their musical listening duel to see who is the first to go lunatic...
...Calvin Coolidge stood in the Blue Room to greet them. Outside, two dozen motor cars were in line. Mr. Coolidge and The Chief went out and got into the first car, their ladies following in the next one. The chauffeur of the No. 1 car stepped on the self-starter. Wheels within groaned loudly but the motor would not start. The chauffeur gasped at himself and the motor. The Chief looked worried. Cameramen pressed in closer. Finally the engine spat, caught, hummed properly and the open car rolled down the gravel drive and out upon Pennsylvania Avenue. Calvin Coolidge...