Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy's best ace in the hole against too humiliating Nazi terms continued...
Only eight years ago, Wild was covering the Capone murders in Chicago as the ace crime reporter of the Chicago Daily News. So great was his work that he was awarded the Colonel McCormick Prize in Journalism, and Wild became hailed as the greatest police court correspondent since Finley Peter Dunne of the New York Journal...
...trackmen are by no means a perfect team, for their strength is not evenly distributed, and they must rely on certain events to give them enough points to put them in the money, Judging by their performance against Exeter, Coach Neufeld will have one very potent ace up his sleeve in the 1000 yard run, where the veterans of the cross country team are showing themselves as fit indoors as they were on the hills. Led by Bill Palson, harrier captain, the distance men include Marshall Hughes and Bob Mead, all three of whom are capable of repeating the clean...
...under the tutelage of Peterson, who has been demonstrating Varsity gainers for the past five years. With adequate improvement, Hewes may take the third diving slot on next year's Varsity; but his best performance of 85.2 against Brown seems less exceptional when compared to the 94 of Sophomore ace Shaw McCutcheon in the same meet last year. Dave Saunders is the only other '44 diver of any promise...
...have been only a nine-spot, but the missions of such men as Harry Hopkins, Wild Bill Donovan (see p. 21) and Wendell Willkie (see p. 16) might turn up jacks or better. The unprecedented welcome President Roosevelt gave Lord Halifax (see p. 11) was an ace with which the Lend-Lease Bill would neatly pair...