Word: foils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell's superiority in the foil gave the Big Red a 19 to 8 win over the visiting Crimson varsity fencing team in the season opener, Saturday...
Bill Trebilcock managed the only individual foil win for the varsity as Cornell took eight of the nine bouts...
...foil team is also highly experienced with essentially the same lineup as last year's team...
...nickname tagged back on him. No great shakes as an office manager, he watched his desk disappear under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil of the P-51 fighter of World War II, a supersonic freeflight wind tunnel in which a model plane is fired into a blast...
Next step is to devise equipment that will cope in some way with the enemy's latest dodges. About the oldest passive electronic defense is "chaff"* strips of aluminum foil tossed from an airplane to give a reflection that an enemy radar mistakes for another airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...