Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection, for the anesthetic needle may pick up cancerous cells and start the "seeding" of tumors...
...Epee, foil, and sabre flash under the supervision of Rene Peroy, coach of fencing. Owing to the lack of experienced material in the first-year class, the beginner often makes the team...
...Labastie '40 copped two of the three University fencing championships finished Friday when he took top honors in foil and sabre, and Lynn Brua '41 was the winner in the epee division...
...Framed in armor-plated glass, fastened in by invisible glass screws to foil thieves, one of the four original copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
...meeting yesterday afternoon Albert H. Labastie '40, number one foil man, was elected captain of next year's fencing team...