Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atheism. Mr. Hoover, one remembers, thought that all good things should drop from above. They did not in the economic structure, and they will not in the academic. All power to the National Student League or to any other undergraduate organization which can see its own hand before its ace, and which is not afraid to point that fact out. POLLUX...
...inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt. If the cost-accounts of the Tennessee plants are accurately kept and made public for general inspection, the experiments in the Valley offer hope of a final solution to this murky problem. Thus far, at any rate, the T.V.A. has proved to be the one ace Roosevelt has pulled from his immaculate sleeve which gives undeniable pretext for prolonged huzzahs and justifiable optimism. CASTOR
...Lampoon board at a dinner given for them. After many after dinner speeches, suddenly one of the editors of the Harvard publication embarked on the subject of the stolen fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered...
...foes-the Chancellor and his chief henchmen have been shouting themselves hoarse for weeks, roaring up and down Germany in Herr Hitler's big private plane, often piloted by the bullnecked, hot-eyed No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia and a War ace (see cut). To ensure victory other steps were also taken-or at least a great many Germans seemed to think...
...have only Mr. Ruben's word for it that "Ace of Aces" is not plagiarism, but anyone who remembers "Wings," "The Sky Hawk" and other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might...