Word: foil
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly in the form of foil, but now gold and other pure metals are used in many different forms. Alloys, or mixtures of metals not easily oxidized, are also available. Amalgams have come into use, and above all, very serviceable cements have been invented by German industrial chemists; and these cements imitate bone in appearance...
...Alison" of Miss Jane Sever was at every situation and incident delightfully expressive, and especially so in the fourth act, where she proved an adequate foil to Marlowe's intensity. Miss Emma C. Noyes as "Her Ladyship" looked the part to perfection, and gave it the required degree of snap and self-control, and Mrs. Hutchinson took full advantage of a short part in "Dame Benet...
...fencing tournament last night, in the foil competition, H. J. Elam 3L., was awarded the championship of New England. R. S. Earle 2L., won second place, and A. Tyng '04, third. In the sabres, Elam won one bout and lost two, but failed to qualify for the finals. In dueling swords, Elam won second place...
...MacLeod '05 and H. W. Holmes 1G., were fifth and seventh respectively in the foil competition. The decisions were made by the new method of percentages recently adopted by the Amateur Fencers' League of America...
...following Harvard men have entered the foil competition: R. S. Earle 2L., W. MacLeod '05, A. Tyng '04, H. W. Holmes 1G. R. Merrill '06 has entered for the duelling swords, and H. J. Elam 3L. will compete in all three events...