Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steadily to the top. A stocky left-hander who moves surprisingly fast for his build, Alessandroni won the foils title in 1934, was runner-up last year. Tied for first place with the defending champion, Joseph L. Levis, and the national three-weapon champion, John R. Huffman, he made spectacular use of the parry-riposte, beat them both in a triple fence-off last week. Tall, willowy Norman Armitage, who sports a little waxed mustache, had little difficulty in taking his third straight sabre title...
...Salles d'Armes feminine enrollment has also jumped 50% over a year ago. Victory of a Detroiter in a tournament which, except when it was won by German Helene Mayer, has always been won by Easterners, was one indication of fencing's spreading vogue. An even more spectacular one has been provided this winter by the presence in New York of Aldo Nadi. Aldo Nadi is a sleek, suave and almost incredibly elegant young man from Livorno, Italy, who makes no secret of the fact that he is the best fencer in the world...
...Sophomore, Lewis A. McGowan '38, has qualified to play as number four man, turning in cards ranging from 71 to 77. Though McGowan didn't compete for his Freshman team last year, he has been playing spectacular golf. Mansfield Branigan '36 completes the list of veteran players, and will in all probability rank fifth this year...
...took four days of the hardest going for Correspondent Steer to get back to Addis Ababa. Yet Benito Mussolini expected Marshal Badoglio to cover the same distance with his cumbersome army in three days, so as to give the Italian people a spectacular victory on the anniversary of the founding of Rome (April 21, 753 B. C.). In this dilemma Marshal Badoglio yelled for his colleague in the south, General Graziani, to take the puck...
...there is no logical reason to discriminate against students at government colleges, making them bear arms against their will. Indeed the popularity of the training is enough to justify removing the compulsory feature. But at any event the solid work of the Peace Committee, coupled with the more spectacular efforts of the V. F. W., should make the peace movement at Harvard more effective than it has been in recent years...