Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve men, four each at sabre, foil, and epee, are planning to travel to the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at the University of Pennsylvania next week. Coach Edo Marion expects that the team will make a good showing...
Nick Spitzer in the epee and Dan Kirsch in the foil should also win valuable points for Harvard. Spitzer, particularly, has been outstanding in some matches this year...
...only the captured bees but wasps and hornets to produce their poison over and over again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging muscles to contract and excrete venom...
...ovens workable, and the fire escapes still there, something was obviously wrong. It seemed incredible to be still at Radcliffe and live in a place that could be made distinctively one's own. (Jane Cummin, of course, tried to do this in her dormitory room with shower curtains, gold foil and a hibiscus.) Some residents, basking in their new privacy, even congratulated themselves for not knowing each other's name after several months of living on the same floor...
...Cornell took advantage of Crimson weaknesses in the foil and epee to hand the varsity fencers their second Ivy defeat in as many starts...