Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed and trained each fencer not to strike his opponent on the body. With these weapons thus "doped" the fencers were far safer in this exhibition than in regulation epee bouts in which jagged wounds resulting from vicious close-in thrusts penetrate the protective...
...this week Martin Slisco's waiting had a happy ending. Red tape had finally been cut and down the gangplank of the Aquitania when it docked in Manhattan came dark-eyed Para Krka, ready to be installed as queen of the Koyukuk...
...Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking for the world's record was not his only major feat of the day. As anchor man in the mile relay, the last event of the day, he outran University of California's Olympic Champion Archie Williams to give Stanford the ten points it needed...
...Northrop was pulled out of the mile run and saved for the two mile relay, leaving the field open for Bowdoin's Bob Porter and Rhode Island's Stan Holt, who ran to the tape together in a spectacular finish with the first Crimson runner, Bill Wright, well back in fifth place...
...chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around the globe were not robbers. End less red tape poisoned the ports. Mostly the natives along the way were pleasing, but he could not see their deterioration without thinking sadly that they had been less harmed by white men's bullets than by their civilized blessings...