Word: mats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maturity, will never be allowed to reach their full growth. When they are allowed to mature, only 50% of them is used at the sawmill. Sapling forests will be harvested-perhaps by Paul Bunyanesque mowing machines-and put through a process which will reduce their fibres to a mossy mat; then remolded, remade into wood, of any dimension, any hardness. This process is now being used in Mississippi to manufacture "Masonite" from sawdust, chips and other refuse lumber...
...whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked up on the Stab Register. Stabbing the floor, another foil blade or hilt, does not register. Inventor Massard insisted last week that it is impossible for fencers...
Memories of the Harvard-Army football game of last fall will be revived when the University grapplers face the West Point team on the mat in Hemenway Gymnasium at 8.30 o'clock tonight. In two of the eight matches, erstwhile football opponents will again be pitted against one another...
...Harvard record for the season so far is a defeat at the hands of M.I.T. and an overwhelming victory over Tufts. Springfield has also won and lost this season, having pinned the North Adams Y.M.C.A. to the mat and been defeated by Brown...
Neither C. G. Chase '30 of the 115-pound class or C. D. Newhart '31 of the 175-pound class will appear on the mat tonight, both having received injuries which will temporarily prevent their participation in wrestling. F. C. Evans '31 will take the place of Chase and Theodore Norman '30 will wrestle for Newhart in this evening's meet. In addition to this, W. A. Robertson of last year's University team will replace J. F. Solano '30 in the 155-pound class, and Solano will move up to the 165-pound class in the place...