Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lusty new land like Australia, many a citizen is as violently playful as an old fashioned Wild West cowboy. Last week there were Wild West doings when Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales tried to open the world's largest single-arch bridge, a mighty mass of steel flung across Sydney harbor...
...days before the bridge inaugural, some members of the British House of Commons were talking with the Agent in London of the State of New South Wales, Mr. A. C. Willis. They told him they had learned of a plot in Sydney to pick up six-foot Premier Lang just as he was opening the bridge and throw him overboard into Sydney harbor, 172 ft. below...
Knowing his fellow Australians, Agent Willis could easily believe them capable of such a playful plot. He rushed from the House of Commons, dashed off a cable to Premier Lang, discovered next morning that London's urbane Press thought "someone has been pulling Mr. Willis' leg." In England Premiers are not tossed off bridges. That even Australians would plot such a thing is to Englishmen quite unthinkable...
...fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books, found it hard to keep their footing. Japanese speed skaters were outdistanced; two Japanese...
...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...