Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fatefully the smudge-mustached little Chancellor left Berlin by air one day last week for Essen, deep plans and savage suspicions gyrating in his brain. With him flew spectacular Reichsminister General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the bull-necked Nazi war ace who controls Prussia's Secret Police. They discussed recent Nazi squabbles in Berlin which to both seemed disgraceful - and ominous...
Into the control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
Many records, some of which still withstand all onslaught, were set up at that time by such swimmers as Al Schwartz of Northwestern, and Kojac, the Rutgers ace...
...outstanding matches of the day were those in which Captain Mel Heath lost to Doyle, the Holy Cross ace, and Gillette edged Hartigan, both matches going to the eighteenth hole before they were decided...
With a strong wind sweeping the course and a 75 already posted which had withstood the attacks of the collegiate golf stars during most of the day, Ed Peterson, Freshman ace and Massachusetts Junior Golf Champion, blazed over the last five holes of the Oakley course in even par yesterday and won the New England intercollegiate Golf Championship with a 74. Wilfred Crossley '36 was the only other Crimson entrant to break 80 and scored a 78 to capture fifth place...