Word: foil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the 1947 season's returning lettermen, the fencers boast good coverage in all three events--epee, foil, and saber--with the following men filling the key positions: Neil McNeil, John Ager, Halton Arp, Giles Constable, Stan Sheldon, Joseph Vera, and Ray Frankman. VARSITY SCHEDULE Feb.14 Cornell (away) Feb.18 Brown (away) Feb.21 Army Feb.25 M. I. T Feb.28 Princeton Mar.6 Columbia Mar.13 Yale (away) Mar.19-20 Intercollegiate Moet (at New York...
...change began with the phonograph. The machine which Edison invented in 1877 was an impractical toy which, as its needle scratched a cylinder of tin foil, made noises like a man strangling to death. The commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...
...workout, in Angel, to reveal their full stature as clowns. When the script is on their side, as in a lampoon of one of those Mr.-&-Mrs.-at-Breakfast radio programs, the Hartmans can be extremely funny. Grace's flat voice and frozen facial muscles are a perfect foil for her husband's oafish ardors and accomplished gaucherie...
...formation sped up, down, and off the field. Eliot's spirited cheerleaders, headed by "Fob" Cobb, ripped off sizable gains through ill-organized Deacon defenses, but the big surprise of the day was attributed to William J. Bingham '16, who craftily provided collapsible goalposts to foil the jubilant throng of rooters which stormed out of the north stands after the contest...
...usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before the war, held on to its prices. Said one Alcoa...