outstart
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Would you have me give the secret of my success at the very outstart?
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke
Many young men become discouraged at the very outstart by attempting to read and study books that are far beyond their comprehension.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Many of these he was compelled at the outstart to forego, and he set to work upon his first book, the Grammatica Græca of Lascaris, with barely a tithe of that number.
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater
So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
The advocates of women in dentistry were met at the outstart with the health question, and as it had never been tested, the most favorably inclined looked forward with some anxiety to the result.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton