Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Dartmouth on February 14 broke a five-year mark established in 1937 by the great Charlie Hutter of Harvard, Fred Worthem set a new Dartmouth record of 2:14 earlier this month and Ed Jones and Bill Trubee of Princeton are also threats in this event. Rene Chouteau, ace middle distance man on the large Yale squad, is another entrant who shines...
...best pitching talent to be displayed in recent years has been uncovered in the month's activity under the nets. Jim Mains, right-hander from Boston has the fastest ball of any hurler on the lot, and his speedy slants have impressed Coach Samborski. Dave Riley, another rangy ace sports a vicious sinker and a measure of control, while Andy McCullough, another hopeful is steadier than any of the '45 pitchers to date...
This week dopesters could see a big ace hiding in Grace's terminal application: Panagra's extension to the U.S., it says, would better serve passengers from the French, German and Italian airlines Panagra has taken over in the last year. Since better service means Better Neighbors, the application apparently has the State Department's blessing...
...Author. This is apparently the case with Miss Baum herself. Only child of Viennese bourgeois, Vicki Baum (real name: Hedwig) started writing when she was 14-surreptitiously, for her father disapproved of authors (he still does). She was also an ace harpist, gave up music when she married Richard Lert, who later conducted the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera Co. During the war she was, like Marion, a nurse; but "we didn't have these uniforms the women are wearing here now; soldiers needed them...
Although Yale tried mightily to ring up a world's record in the Medley Relay, the only record-breaking of the evening came when ace backstroker Danny Dannenbaum swam the first leg of the Medley Relay in 59.8 seconds to eclipse the old mark of 60.7 seconds set by Joe Burns two years...