Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynolds Tobacco Co. He was soon a vice president and for his good work (including the development and marketing of Prince Albert) was offered a salary of $100,000 by the company when in 1912 he decided to go into business for himself. His first experience was in the foil industry, and in 1928 he formed Reynolds Metals Co. by merging four important companies in this line. He also formed Eskimo Pie Corp., control of which is held by Reynolds Metals...
...foil to prove the raising scholastic standards is the decline of interest in extra-curricular activities. Men are not competing for sport managerships in as great numbers as formerly. Changes in the system have to be made and the work has to be lessened in order to draw men out. Extra-curricular offices are less enticing because of the greater interest in the regular college work. The increasing sane attitude towards athletics is also evidence of this reawakened scholastic endeavor...
...Miss Marion Lloyd, Manhattan fencer, so tired she could hardly hold her foil: the women's U. S. senior foils championship in a triple-fence-off with Mrs. Leon Schoonmaker and Miss Dorothy Locke...
President Butler also quoted himself as saying, in the same setting twenty-four years ago, that a democracy must provide itself with a foil of its own--an effective aristocracy of intellect and service. California, with its State university (enjoying also large private endowments), its Stanford University and its institutions of superb technical and scientific equipment, is best served and is best able to serve the nation by maintaining these at topmost intellectual efficiency rather than by dissipating its funds in evoking sham universities out of junior colleges. California cannot hold her place in the educational van if she ceases...
Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, two inspectors of police, several sergeants, 30 uniformed constables and unnumbered plain clothes men met Spain's King Alfonso XIII in Victoria Station, warmly welcomed him to England. To foil any would-be bombers, Alfonso's coach had been secretly detached from "The Golden Arrow," speedy coast-to-London express, at Ashford, Kent, and arrived eight minutes later at a different, securely barricaded platform...