Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard made six hits off the Holy Cross ace, Roy Bruninghaus. Three in the first and three in the sixth produced two runs in both of these innings...
Harvard expects to have a good team and hopes to have a championship League baseball season this year. Can Coach Fred Mitchell find a pitcher to support his coming ace, the burly Sophomore righthander, Ed Ingalls? Can he find a hard-hitting outfielder to fill little Frank Owen's 1935 shoes in the right garden? Upon the answer to these two questions hang the rise or fall of the second Varsity nine to be led by the Second Marshal of his class, the peppery receiver, and inspirational leader, Dick Maguire...
...able to throw some light on Dr. Frederick A. Cook's efforts to prove that his tour to the North Pole was on the up and up [TIME, March 30]. . . . In 1926 I was a newshawk on the Fort Worth Record-Telegram when Roald Amundsen, ace of the cold weather explorers, came to that city to deliver a lecture. Dr. Cook at that time was awaiting the outcome of a federal penitentiary appeal in the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. Amundsen was asked: "Do you believe Dr. Cook reached the North Pole?" The explorer replied: "Dr. Cook...
...ace newsman must have the brass to ask what are generally called "embarrassing questions." This quality Mr. Howard displayed in full measure in his interview with Dictator Stalin, whom it is virtually impossible to embarrass. Consequently their conversation, even after filtering through the Chief Soviet Censor, was a merry din of brass clashing upon steel...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...