Word: mt
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...University sponsored the slalom this year, which was run on Hillman's Highway at Mt. Washington, N.H. In the individual standings, Brooks Dodge of Dartmouth took first place with a run of 37.4 seconds. Don Stephenson, captain of the Crimson ski team, came in second with a time...
...Skiing Club has members from the Harvard graduate schools as well as all skiers on the undergraduate team. In a final, informal race this Saturday, the Club will compete against Dartmouth in a precipitous slalom on 'Hillman's Highway," a steep run on the side of Tuckerman's Ravine, Mt. Washington. A total of seventy men are expected to compete...
Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...
...Harvard skiing team soundly trounced Yale last Saturday at Cranmore Mt., N.H., taking three out of the first four places in a slalom race. Princeton was also scheduled to compete, but its team had not arrived at the start of the race...
...next contest this season, the skiers will face Yale and Princeton in the triangular meet on Saturday, April 4, at Cranmore Mt., North Conway, N.H. Their final match will be against Dartmouth on April 17 at Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington...