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Word: hilt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westhrin and Ray Pierce, who also rates high on the saber ladder, are sophomores. In the other weapons, '51 doesn't do so well and the old-timers take over. Captain John Ager is top man in epee, a three-sided sword with a cup-shaped hilt, Giles Constable and Masterson fill up the top three, and may be the group to face Bowdoin in the first game this February...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

...from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying of U.S. goods to that same figure. Cried Miranda: "We are going to play our role of buyer to the hilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Forget the Dollars | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...hilt, as things stood, was not much buying-or much selling either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Forget the Dollars | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Young and Fair, though a botch, is by no means a bore. There is always far too much happening, far too much threatening. And an all-female cast acts the play to the hilt-and at moments quite convincingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Such problems are nothing new to the HTW, which had to cope with the same thing last year in rehearsals for Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Swords in Sundry Directions . . . | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

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