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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 »

Chip Arp heads the foil-wielders, followed by Joe Verra and Bill Raney. Verra played on the squad in 1947 and took a breather last winter by sweeping the House League in all three weapons. His best instrument is still the foil, which has a flatter hilt and four sides. Five touches are needed to win a foil match three will do in epee...

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 »

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