Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today they will all be fought out--the Civil War, the assault on monopolies, the clash of have's and have-not's--when the Chicago Cubs dare to meet the New York Yankees. As in the 60's, "Gin'ral" Lee, ace pitcher of the underdog National League club, will try to stop the "Damnyankees." That the Yankees are a monopolistic and "have" organization cannot be disputed, since they comprise one of the highest-salaried teams in baseball and own a farm system that makes them look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle...
Hank Luisetti, Stanford's basketball ace, performs true to stereotype as a collegiate hero who wins the Big Game with One Minute To Play...
Greenhood, swimming captain and star diver, has chosen a squad of six men to assist him: Gene Clark '40, miler; Lopey Forbush '39, diver; Dick Grondahl '39, infielder; Jim Lightbody '40, ace quarter-miler; Charlie Lutz '40, basketeer, and Joe Patrick, hockey player. All have won their major H's, and therefore qualify for cheerleading posts...
Starring for the big-timers were the two ends, Captain Bob Green and big Don Daughters. Green caught two short aerials, one from ace wingback Torby Macdonald and the other from tailback Austy Harding, both for scores. Daughters was the proverbial bulwark on defense and set the stage for one score when he Larry Kellied a scrub fumble on the four-yard stripe...
When, 17 months ago, foreign correspondents reported that the strategically unimportant holy Basque city of Guernica had been ruthlessly destroyed by German bombers in the service of Rightist Spain, ace French Newscommentator "Pertinax" (André Géraud) had a ready explanation. According to him, Air Marshal Hermann Göring of Germany ordered the bombing as an experiment of the effectiveness of the air attack...