Word: blade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing that a man in Montana was bragging about the antiquity of his razor, a 146-year-old English blade, Dr. Allan Chester Johnson, Princeton Latinist, announced that he was trimming his beard with a stone razor he found in 1910 under the bathroom window of the palace of King Minos of Crete, where it was first used circa 2500 B.C. Said Dr. Johnson: "It has a marvelous edge...
...Varsity shell. Eliel at 5 and Art Beane at 2 are finished oars, both capable of lasting the four mile grind on the Thames. Number 4, Erickson, another Sophomore, likewise appears to be built with a nickel-plated endurance, although not in the class with Beane and Eliel in blade work...
Then Dr. Filatov cuts two short slots in the opaque cornea, one on each side of the hidden pupil. Through those slots he slides a thin blade of ivory. This protects the patient's crystalline lens and prevents aqueous humor from escaping when Dr. Filatov cuts out a small disk from the cornea directly over the pupil...
With three Harvard blade teams scheduled to follow one another onto the New Haven ice against the traditional Yale opponents today, the Crimson's chances for a better than even split on the outcome looks bright. Last year as three Blue teams met three Crimson sextets on Boston ice it was the Jayvee and Freshman teams, winning by one-point margins, that partly retrieved the laurals which the Varsity lost by a similar margin; this year the Varsity is looked to as a tower of strength, well capable of offsetting any bad results that fickle fortune may throw...
...protege of Willie Frick, Arena Skating Master, outdistanced his competitors by his jumping and smooth transition of blade edges. It was this, combined with his nice carriage and ice personality which won over the judges in his behalf...