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Word: foiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pacing the Crimson roster, Jim Roberts, the New England Intercollegiate champion, downed three opponents to remain undefeated in epee. Almost overtaking the Harvard squad, the Engineers slashed their way to 6-3 and 5-4 wins in saber and foil, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Top M.I.T. | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

These productions are guaranteed to foil the most non-risible...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...meet these powers, Marion will use a team which is notably strong in the foil division, but undermanned in the epee class. His personnel problems have even forced him to switch Allan Gardner, basically a foil man, to epee competition in order to help the team's only regular epee combatant, Jim Roberts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Says Training Program Should Improve Fencing Squad | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson has three excellent foil men in Dave Johnson, the captain, Larry Johnson, and Phil Charat--men whom Marion judges more than competent to offset Gardner's absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Says Training Program Should Improve Fencing Squad | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forms in Air | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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