Word: starter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams scored a goal within four minutes after the starter's whistle blew. Upton, the star of the game, then started a steady line of shots, which more than kept pace with the combined scores Northeastern players...
Another utterance he made last week seemed not without political felicity, not a bad starter towards girding up his party nationally against 1932. When the Smith returns were in, he telegraphed to National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia: "Please tell the people of Georgia, my other State, that I am proud of the splendid way in which they have demonstrated their loyalty to the Democracy...
...inevitable was the Smith nomination, however, that most Democrats of any account were aboard the Smith wagon before the self-starter was depressed. As a result, there was very little "crow-eating" in the Democracy last week...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...
...problem of flying through the air by foot power, for a minute and a half at least, seems solved. There remains the problem of how to get started. At present the automobile acts as starter. Later Inventor White plans to take off from hillsides after installing a two and a half horsepower compressed air motor to get him up and give the 100 "wing flaps per minute necessary for flight...