Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behold. Partway down was an unnoticed little rise in the snow. When they hit that, the skiers were shot through the air for 50 ft. Of the 16 contestants, Gasperl of Austria and Kjelland of Norway miraculously lit upright after hitting the bump, and shot on down the hill instead of cannonballing askew in a flying tangle of arms, legs and skis. The winners were timed at a speed never before reached by man on his feet -a world's record of 100 m.p.h. (1932 record: 89 m.p.h...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...
...Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events in the national A. A. U. champion-ships-that impartial observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably...
Winding up a season in which they have been defeated only by the Harvard Freshmen, the Jayvee skaters will meet the Yale Seconds at New Haven at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Yale has been undefeated in four games, while Harvard has triumphed over Belmont Hill, North-eastern, Governor Dummer Academy, and the Danvers Hockey Club. The Jayvee team will witness the first game of the series that the Varsity plays with Yale at 8.30 o'clock...
Undefeated as yet, the Harvard freshman hockey team will meet St. Paul's at Concord. New Hampshire Wednesday at 2.45 o'clock. St. Paul's has lost to the Princeton Freshman and Yale Freshman teams; Harvard has defeated Belmont Hill, Belmont High, Exeter. Arlington High, Newton High, and the Junior Varsity...