Word: partway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of the foot-straps and canvas streamers behind to streamline the wind. One after another, squatting, a plumed ball of a man on long slivers would push off slowly, come over the lip of the mountain and cascade down the face at a speed terrifying to 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...