Word: headstart
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...headstart ticked away, Pilot Howard watched the clock, listened nervously for the roar of Colonel Turner's low-wing monoplane. Just as time was about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry...
...Sciences. Completing his survey of population growth, Professor Richet found Shanghai leading the world's great cities with an annual increase rate of 55 per 1,000. Tokyo and Osaka next with 44 and 33. New York's rate is only 19, but with a long headstart that city remains at the top of Professor Richet's metropolitan picture...
...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...
Marry the Man. Playwright Jean Archibald's comedy has a sexy headstart in its subject, companionate marriage, but it soon loses ground and does not come in a winner. Mollie Jeffries thinks that she and her Gregory will always enjoy a paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks...
...that his ancestors have remained possessors and in constant occupation of the same piece of land since 1023; which would give him a lineage going back to the time of the second of the Capets, rivalling the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry II, in Germany and having a generation's headstart on William the Conqueror...