Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...
...life than at some of the older and more dreary colleges. And however deadening routine intellectual methods may be, the routine of actual living is more mentally stultifying. It is also conceivable that under less stimulating teachers, Rollins College may experience the same danger which Harvard came within an ace of encountering under the free elective system--, namely the pursuit of single subjects to the exclusion of liberal education. When inspirational leadership dies, the mass of students will study for the material benefits of knowledge...
...refused to consider previously. Ultimately the Governor is convinced that the condemned brother is innocent, that another Sing Sing inmate (fortunately present, serving a stretch for forgery) is really the man who murdered the sister's betrayer, the crime which the innocent boy came within an ace of expiating. The script is abominable, the plot rather well designed...
...About the neck of Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, 40, at Boiling Field, D. C. President Hoover hung the pale blue ribbon of the Congressional Medal of Honor, highest military award, acclaimed him "ace of aces of the American forces in the World War." Medalist Rickenbacker's feat: attacking single-handed seven enemy planes, downing two. (His full record: 26 planes shot down...
...prove his patriotic contention the Emperor had imported and naturalized as one of his subjects "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh" (TIME, Nov. 3). Before the white Coronation guests, including George V's pallid third son, the Duke of Gloucester, the black ace was to take off and do stunts with an airplane presented to His Majesty by the daughter of H. Gordon Selfridge, London drygoods tycoon. "But don't you try to fly that airship before my Coronation day, Colonel!" commanded His Majesty, Power of Trinity...