Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game today will be no setup for Harvard as it has been in past years, for the Terriers went on a conditioning five-game southern trip, have six hitters over a .300 average, and an ace pitcher in Vincent Sandercock...
...boosted his national prestige by capturing the American title in the 220 and taking a second in the 100-yard event. His time in the former event, 2:11.2 minutes, fell below his Harvard best, while in the latter only a yard separated him from the winner, United States ace Peter Fick, who came from behind to hang on to his title...
...profits reported by Sears were $30,660,000, a 43% increase over $21,519,000 reported in 1935. On a percentage basis Ward did even better, lifting its profits 49% from $13,527,000 to $20,199,000. Both companies paid out within an ace of their total earnings in dividends to avoid the undistributed profits tax and both did financing during the fiscal year to obtain new capital...
...pitching burden for the Crimson nine will probably be carried by Ingalls, last year's ace, who will hurl at least two, if not three games. Dick Walsh is sure of a starting berth in one of the other contests, while the third starter will be found among Curtiss, Prouty, and Victor...
...your correspondents, is no novelty in air warfare. Precisely such a weapon, of 37 mm. calibre, was mounted in the shaft of the 300 h.p. Spad supplied to leading French pursuit pilots, back in September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling...