Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely out of the game. Coaches have said that if he is ready to play at all, he will start and he is not in the starting lineup. But insiders still have the feeling that Harvard may be playing the game with Holy Cross and holding one ace up its sleeve. It Holy Cross doesn't have to make its mind up about Kuziora, there is no reason why Harvard should let the story on Mosely be known...
Next day Colonel Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, No. 1 U. S. War ace, now vice president of North American Aviation, took the stand to rebut Billy Mitchell. Rickenbacker's recipe: "I would use planes to make love to Japan. I would kiss her with a few dirigibles." Chief article in his lovemaking would be a trans-Pacific airline operated jointly by the U. S. and Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire...
...Redskins' scintillants, Cliff Battles, ace ballcarrier of the league and star of the Brooklyn game; Erny Pinckert, former So. California captain and halfback; Pug Rentner of Northwestern; Ted Wright of Texas Teachers, who led the nation in scoring two years ago; Turk Edwards, All-Professional tackle; Hank McPhail, 230-pound fullback from Army, and Big Ben Boswell, 245-pound tackle from Texas Christian, will make their first appearance of the year on the Fenway sward...
Roger Hallowell, ace center of the Crimson team in 1932, was so rough on shoes that he found that the speed shoes were left in tatters at the end of the second half. He decided to concede the speed to the sturdiness of the practice shoes and thereafter were only he heavier shoes...
...moment later his quick laughter burst out again as the interpreter asked him how he liked this cold New England weather. "I am hoping for this Indian summer I have heard about," the interpreter translated. Most diplomatically the 1500-meter ace said that the Stadium track was "very good," and that Harvard was magnificent...