Sentence:  Kerr , who set the world record earlier this month in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3 , wiped out Mills 's <WSD>early</WSD> pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time