Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, munching chicken sandwiches and sipping highballs, watched Kenneth Lynch in a dinner-jacket and his craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...
...Almost the only thing about Gillette Safety Razor Co. and Gillette blades which has not been changed since Depression is the bewhiskered photograph of King C. Gillette, who died in 1932. With most of its patents long exhausted, the company was reorganized after merging in 1930 with AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. when AutoStrop's subsidiary, Probak Corp., produced a blade that exactly fitted Gillette razors. Last year, despite heavy inroads of cheap competing blades and a reduction in the price of both Gillettes and Probaks, Gillette Safety Razor Co. earned $4,188,000 against $3,659,000 (unaudited...
...dash down the three-quarter mile course, which ended at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, was run off at 4.30 o'clock when at Bert Haine's command the 64 oars hit the water. A cross wind made the blade work sloppy, but the first-year men crossed the finish line after 4 minutes and 10 seconds, with the third Varsity and 150 pound crews coming in not far behind. Fourth, fifth, and sixth positions were taken by three crews of inexperienced Freshmen, stroked by Myer, Bennett, and McClennan. The tail-enders were the two other boats of experienced Freshmen...
...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
While two prison doctors tried to pull the blade from the brain, the prisoner, who had not lost consciousness, smoked a cigaret, chatted quietly. The handle broke off from the blade. The prisoner proceeded to a hospital, with a Catholic chaplain administering final rites. A surgeon with a pair of strong pliers pulled out the blade, leaving Joe Fatigate apparently none the worse for his experience...