Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Morgan, IV '36 won all his bouts, taking two in the foil and two in the saber. Captain Phillip E. Lilienthal '36 won all three of his matches in foils, and Richard Ford '36, a member of last year's championship intercollegiate opee team, had a clean sweep in this event...
...slave cabin, when they wish to distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with her at a children's party, gravely pipes his apologies at being unable to bow low because his pantaloons are too tight...
Great Britain, he explained, was the villain of international currency manipulation, but the U. S. would foil her. Said the Nevada Senator proudly: "It's a great game of poker in which the kitty wins and the public loses. There is no government in the world that can stand this asinine policy as well as the government of the United States...
...They have had a guiding hand in the drafting of nearly all legialation expert the NRA, he days. To them the constitution is just a foil for clever fencing- an antediluvian joke to be respected in public like a Sacred Cow and regarded in private somewhat as Gertrude Stein probably regards the poet Tennyson, or any other Victorian...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From the plane stepped Colonel Lindbergh and Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, bent on finding out whether the Goddard rockets are worth spending more money on. For three days Visitors Guggenheim & Lindbergh peered at a 60-ft. rocket tower and instruments usually covered by canvas to foil snoopers. Bald, secretive Professor Goddard showed them a new rocket he has sent on short nights at 700 m.p.h., a new gyroscope designed to keep it from wobbling. By 1936, he predicted, he will be ready to send rockets perhaps 150 mi. into the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized...