Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnival centers around the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association meet. Fraternities and houses will stage "snow statue" contests and hold parties and dances. An Ice show "Outdoor Evening", is planned for Friday night, when a Carnival Queen will be chosen from among 45 selected girls...
These two colleges first introduced the sport to American schools in 1898 at Franklin Park when Brown shut out the varsity, 6 to 0, on outdoor ice. The president of the Brown Club of Boston will unveil a plaque recording this event in a short ceremony preceding tonight's match...
...Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners, he was looking around for a sport to fill the house when his hockey team was on the road. The choice was basketball, a poor risk at the time, and Podoloff was elected president of the Basketball Association of America...
...Jerkens insists that he harbors no training secrets. Says he: "All you can do is do your best for a horse: mix olive oil in their mash, pick greens for them, and hope for the best. If they're sore, you tub them and ice them. Lots of good trainers just don't get the breaks, but some years you get lucky." Allen Jerkens has been getting so lucky so often that many horsemen now make him a factor in their handicapping-along with a horse's bloodlines, its past performances and its jockey...
...Three. Wall Street looked into Kreuger's hypnotic, ice-blue eyes and found that it could not resist this charmer. The staid and honorable banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. begged to be his broker and soon bore him a bouncing new corporation, International Match. Kreuger promptly convinced the directors, among them Percy Rockefeller, nephew of John D., that the millions raised from this and subsequent flotations should be deposited by him with a European subsidiary, to "avoid taxes." Kreuger, in turn, would mail back the dividends, some of them as handsome...