Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, Eusden was the unwitting cause of a bad break, which will hurt the team tonight, when ace diver Shaw McCutcheon lost his balance while practicing early this week and fell, grazing Eusden, who was swimming under the high board at the time. McCutcheon suffered a wrenched shoulder, and it is doubtful that he will be able to compete in this evening's meet...
...second Eli tankman, whose caliber can be compared with Johnson's as Man has been compared with the angels--just "a little lower"--is ace butterflier Johnny Meyer. Meyer navigates 200 yards in two minutes, 25.9 seconds, which represents the best time turned in by any intercollegiate breaststroker so far this year...
...John" Eusden was once again a double winner or the Varsity mermen, taking both the 50 and 100 yard free styles from David St. John, the Lions' highly-touted, ace free styles. In the 50, Eusden turned in a time of 24.3 seconds, which represents the best he has done in any meet during the present season...
Visit of the Spirit. In 1939 the late German ace and parachute expert, Ernst Udet, visited Japan and inspected the Japanese Air Force. He is said to have reported to Hermann Goring that Japanese flyers, though brave and willing, were no sky-beaters. Part of the trouble was technical, part organizational. In 1940 Tomoyuki Yamashita was given his big chance, the job of reorganizing the Japanese Air Force. To his mind, the first thing to do was see how the Germans...
Canada's own Air Marshal and World War I Ace, William Avery ("Billy") Bishop, has a role to play in the picture: awarding wings to 1,000 R.C.A.F. cadets. They are an international force (Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, etc.), and the camera pauses to scan their faces: young, fresh, earnest, consolingly cocksure...