Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Rene Peroy's fencers lost their first team match of the season against the Loomis foil, epee, and saber artists. Freshman Capt. Roland Gaeta provided the single achievement of the afternoon by taking all three of his foil matches. Most of the Freshman strength was centered in the foil and epee matches, where 10 of the 12 Yardling points were scored...
Hero of the day was Sophomore George Wilbur who won six and a half of his eight matches. Fencing in all three weapons, Wilbur took all of his foil bouts, won two and tied one in epee, and broke even in two saber bouts...
Convincing victories in all divisions, foil, sabre, and epee, marked the first triumph this year for Coach Renee Peroy's '45 fencers Saturday afternoon, when they downed Andover 21 to 6, at Andover...
Blown Up, Flown Up. Although powdered magnesium is explosive, solid magnesium is no more combustible than aluminum or iron, both of which also burn in foil or powder form. (To prove this point one metallurgist went about smoking a magnesium pipe.) But today less than 5% of U.S. magnesium goes into military pyrotechnics and scavenging; 95% goes into definitely nonflammable alloys of which about 80% goes into airplanes...
...Until defense interfered, Alcoa was busy on the cigaret foil market, claims the tobacco industry could save $500,000 a year in freight costs by using aluminum foil instead of tin. Aluminum beer kegs are already used by Ballantine and others...