Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming up in the last 100 yards and running shoulder to shoulder with Joe Lang of Boston College, Arthur Foote II, '33, Crimson distance ace, took first place in the 2-mile run for the most sensational finish of the meet, winning by a matter of inches. J. H. Dean '34, footfall captain-elect, broke both the shot put and the discus records, while Captain Dodge shattered the previous quarter-mile mark...
Among the outstanding Harvard entries who are expected to capture first places are captain N. P. Dodge, Jr. '33, 40-yard ace; J. B. White '34, half-miler; and J. M. Morse '34, versatile middle and long distance racer...
...given the Nazis their strong card; and the desperate economic condition of the country, in large part brought on and prolonged by Versailles and succeeding treaties of extraction, has fostered the growth of the Communist party. The rise of these Marxists in turn has handed the Nazis their other ace: the role of defenders of the State against the terrors of Bolshevism. And the coming of these two wings, Fascist and Communist, has squeezed out the intermediary and moderate factions in the German political alignment...
Hermann Göring, former War ace, new Commissioner for Air (see above), is one of the most violent of the Hitler lieutenants, was promised the Foreign Ministry months ago when Handsome Adolf dreamed of an all-Nazi Cabinet. If he could not be Foreign Minister last week Herr Göring determined to act like one. When the Swedish Gothenburg Handelsoch Sjöfartstidning declared: "It is incomprehensible that the statesmen and Press of the world should be compelled to occupy themselves with this figure. Hitler is an insult." Fiery Hermann Göring promptly telegraphed the editor...
...father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died a year ago. Three years...