Word: kanonen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University of New Hampshire's skiers: the 31st annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival: outrunning-and-outjumping the Kanonen of seven other North American colleges and the Royal Norwegian Air Force (refugee fliers now training in Canada); with a team score of 564.9 points; at Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth finished second. McGill third. the Norwegians fourth...
...trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth of skiing terrain-with villages challenging the Gemutlichkeit of the Austrian Tyrol and Europe's top-notch Skimeisters making Kanonen ("big shots") out of U. S. Fanny Dunkers...
...Winter Olympics had been held last month as scheduled, U. S. Kanonen would probably have made a creditable showing against Europeans for the first time in history. But most U. S. skiers ski just for fun. Last week, while the country's experts prepared for next week's national downhill and slalom championships at Sun Valley, U. S. skidoodlers speckled the snow belt from the Atlantic to the Pacific, just waking up to what Europeans have long known: that skiing is best in March and April...