Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Chester Ellis Wright, 36, No. 9 U.S. War ace, onetime (1916) holder of all Harvard strength records; after a two-year fight against Hodgkin's disease (progressive enlargement of lymphatic glands), in Boston...
Every German knows that Captain Göring is an authentic ace hero of the Imperial air force, received Germany's grotesquely French-named Ordre Pour Le Mérite from Kaiser Wilhelm. After Allied airmen shot down the late great Baron von Richthofen he became commander of the Richthofen Escadrille...
Less well known is the fact that Ace Göring, after the signing of the Armistice, refused to deliver to the Allies the planes he commanded, disobeyed his own German superior officers and hopped from city to city with the remnants of the Richthofen Escadrille until he finally ran out of gasoline and supplies in Aschaffenburg. That night, in the local Rathaus, Captain Göring took leave of his airmen with a toast which probably expresses his feelings to this day: "We must be proud of that which we have done! We must desire that another such struggle...
Cochet, wearing shorts like Austin's for the first time in his career, ran up a 4-1 lead. Perry broke his service and won his own twice to tie the score. With the score 4-5 and advantage-in, Perry served what looked like an ace. The linesman called it a fault and Cochet gallantly caught the next serve in his left hand. The set then turned into a long exchange of service games which ended 10-8 for Cochet. Perry took the next two which followed the same pattern, 6-4 and 8-6. Cochet...
...west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years ago Major Logan surveyed the Greenland coast by air for the Canadian Government. The Jellinge carries a Fairchild seaplane as relief and supply ship for the Lindberghs...