Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...
...Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying ace...
...girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
...Timkens were among the first to discover the advantages of the roller bearing over the ball bearing. Their ace product today is the Timken tapered roller bearing (i.e. larger at one end than at the other). This simple device is of prime importance to automobiles where radial and thrust loads are encountered simultaneously in road curves, twists and shocks. Timken tapered roller bearings are standard equipment on nearly every car except those of General Motors which has its own New Departure and Hyatt bearings. Timken also makes bearings for other industrial uses. Its most significant recent milestone was the locomotive...
...Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked to President Roosevelt last week to make Premier Mussolini renounce his blatantly announced war-as-an-instrument-of-Italian-national-policy upon Ethiopia...