Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the pigeons continued to foil all would-be ejectors, a mild boom in eyeshades was reported around the Square as chronic library-goers dug in for a sustained aerial seige. "It may be good for flowers, but I'm no lily," quipped one burly book-lover...
...protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...
...Varsity meet was probably the easiest of the year, seven of the bouts being won without a touch. Freshmen, on the other hand, faced the toughest opposition of the season in Worcester, the only team able to best them. Tying in Epee, the Yardlings lost decisively in both Foil and Saber...
...Varsity lineup: Epee; Duke, Johnson, Masterson. Saber; Barricelli, Edelman, Elis, Gay, Toenges, Foil; Barricelli, Edelman, Hubbard, Raney, Van Roosen, Vera...
...Foil; Seaman defeated Vera (H) 5-2; Van Roosen (H) defeated Seaman 5-4; Weil defeated Hubbard (H) 5-2, Edelman (H) 5-1, and Barrieelli (H) 5-1; Abbate defeated Raney (H) 5-3, and Hubbard (H) 5-1; Barrieelli (H) defeated Abbate 5-3, and Seaman...