Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked up on the Stab Register. Stabbing the floor, another foil blade or hilt, does not register. Inventor Massard insisted last week that it is impossible for fencers equipped with "Massard's Stab Register" to short circuit or electrocute themselves...
...left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every great Italian fencer since Italy became a united kingdom (1868) until recent years. At Beppe Nadi's Fencing Academy at Leghorn before the War gathered many adolescent noblemen later killed on battlefields where a steel blade was not of much use. Nedo Nadi began to fence when he was 7. When he was 13 he won the fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When he was 17, he was unbeatable. He has won five Olympic championships. During...
...were faced with the possibility of having to print any querulous office-seeker's grievance in red-faced, "Second-Coming" type across their front pages. Said Editor Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I will confess that . . . I was entirely scooped." Lamented Editor Grove Patterson of the Toledo Blade: "It seems incredible...
Gillette Safety Razor Co. (Output curtailed in last quarter to prepare for new blade and razor): $13,620,700 as against...