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Word: ace (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ace, Captain Jack Garrity, has recovered from his ankle injury and will be back at his defense position. Another Terrier who didn't see action in the first game but who will perform tonight is former Junior-Olympics player Jack Barry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hockey Sextet Is Rusty for Second BU Match | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

...three Eli forwards, Captain Gordie Ritz, Watson Bray, and Allen Clapp, have collected 74 points among them, nine more than the rest of the team combined. Center Bray leads the team in scoring with 17 goals, while Ritz is the playmaker with 16 assists. The only other Yale scoring ace is Tom McNamara with 11 goals and an equal number of assists...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Faces Yale at Arena Tonight As Wrestlers Travel to New Haven | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

...long they do it, thought Vag, and do it alike, and then they sit down at night and theorize. Every time it snows, the same fanatics reach for the ace bandages and head north. Now, with crocuses showing in the courtyards, it was snowing again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...weakened by the loss of ace wingman Jack Carrity who sat out the contest with a sprained ankle, was unable to stop the Crimson attack. The Yardling second line of Morgan Hatch, Jon Snelling, and Nat Harris scored six of the 11 goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Top BU, 11-5 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

...majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled, carnival pandemonium begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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