Word: blades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Choate also won the Harvard Invitation Regatta last year, defeating their hereditary rival, Kent, by two lengths after a Kent oarsman had broken his blade at the quarter mile mark, leaving seven men to finish the race. These two crews will be in competition again in Cambridge next Friday...
...pens, and shocked an apathetic world with flying gauntlets instead of with a satire which too often goes unperceived. On the other hand, the bitterness with which these gentlemen are wont to attack beloved American traditions might be considerably tempered by a realization that swift vengeance by a biting blade would probably follow an unguarded word...
...vorpal blade went snicker-snack! The beast was dead, and with his head...
...broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions per minute-so rapidly that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen pieces; this might cut wires and cause dire wreckage, if not complete collapse...
...ordinary steel. There are, however, one or two consolatory features. From being the defense of the aristocratic few, sword-play, by means of fencing, has developed into a form of pleasurable exercise for the many. It is no longer necessary to wonder, when one sees an opponent's blade flash forward, whether the steel will lodge between the second and third ribs or between the fourth and fifth, as is the Sicilian custom; but merely in what manner the artistic parry one had in mind was so neatly deceived...