Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks English with no accent, an occasional ja. Last week she reproached photographers who asked her to pose in bright sunlight: "The last pictures in California were in the sun. They made my nose too long. Like Cyrano almost...
Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...
...same Crimson team that has dueled in previous meets will go into action with Captain John G. Hurd '34, Robert C. Ackerman '35, and Philip E. Lilienthal '36 in the foil matches. Edward E. Langenau '35 and Webster F. Williams '35 will duel in the open event, and Edward A. Ackerman '34, Morton Grant '36, and Richard Morgan '36 will be used in the sabre contests...
Winning nine straight foil matches and losing only one match in the sabre and epee events, the Varsity fencing team proved too strong for Rollins yesterday and downed the Florida men 16 to 1. The Crimson men, expecting a close contest, dueled exceedingly well, and had little trouble in winning their ninth victory which keeps their undefeated record intact...
...Play was hard and fast during the entire contest, while both teams displayed for the most part as excellent brand of hockey. During the first period especially, Ray Townshend in the Yale net was called upon to make many spectacular saves as the Crimson club intermittently put on the foil pressure of a five-man offensive. Captain Paul deGive of Harvard came through with his usual stellar type of goal tending...