Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman epee fencers turned into foil swordsmen last night as Harvard squeaked by M.I.T. to win a bizarre match...
...foil fencers were less successful in their match with Tech. Captain Larry Johnson turned in an impressive 5-1, 5-3, 5-1 victory, which accounted for three of Harvard's four-point victory. Dave Mac-Dougall and Al Gardner lost all of their bouts, and Nichols again...
Peter Boyce and Bill Trebilcock each won two bouts in foil. Single victories were scored by Mike Klapper, Filippe Charat and Dick Johnson. Dave Johnson's two losses accounted for Tech's only foil wins...
...with the Answers. Hartack ran through six agents, finally settled down with 30-year-old Chick Lang, son of the jockey who won the 1928 Kentucky Derby on Reigh Count. Chunky Chick Jr., an admirable foil for his rider's furious disposition, studies the available horses at the meetings where Hartack rides, matches them against the condition book (an advance schedule of races), and picks probable winners. For 20% of the Hartack earnings, it is Lang's job to get his boy hired to ride winners and still not anger the trainers he has to turn down. It is cited...
Though he followed James Joyce to Trieste in 1905 and remained there for nearly a half-century as an English professor, Stanislaus was the invisible man in Joyce's life. In this book, he emerges as the perfect foil. Joyce was mercurial, Stanislaus was phlegmatic. Joyce drank, Stanislaus was abstemious. Joyce was referred to as "Sunny Jim," Stanislaus as "Bile Beans." In the Dublin days with which this memoir begins and ends, one belief surmounted all brotherly differences -the belief that Jim had genius...