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Word: foil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Yale game four days away, Coach Edo Marion is starting the "B" foil and sabre squads. Eliot Morrison will lead off in foil, with Bill Bassetti and sophomore Phil Charat filling the second and third slots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Will Fence Against Holy Cross | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

...Cecile Rosalia Allen, and at three, Gracie joined his act in top hat and red whiskers. In 1922, after hunger had urged her into secretarial school, she caught the down-at-heel act of George Burns (real name: Nathan Birn-baum). George promised to feed her, even became her foil when Gracie got all the laughs. They were married in 1926. Six years later they landed a CBS contract and have been on the air ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Burns Without Allen | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Captain Peter Boyce, with an 8-5 record, will lead the foil squad against the Princeton bladesmen, who lost to Columbia...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Fencers Face Princeton in First Ivy Meet; Enter as Underdogs to Experienced Tigers | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Mike Klapper and Bill Trebilcock will fence second and third positions in foil, with Dick Johnson, and Bill Bassetti in reserve...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Fencers Face Princeton in First Ivy Meet; Enter as Underdogs to Experienced Tigers | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

...epee fencers can foil, foil fencers can fence epee. This Dave MacDougall proved as he won in epee, 5-2, scoring several beautiful points against Tech...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Freshmen Edge M.I.T. Fencers | 2/20/1958 | See Source »

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