Word: ski-jumping
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Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...Harvard team placed only one point behind West Point, favorites to win the meet, but was 30 points in back of Middlebury and Dartmouth, who ultimately led the field. When the third of the Crimson's entries in the ski-jump failed to show up at Hanover, all hope of high ranking was lost...
...before. Into the profound snowy silence the voice of Der Führer came out of six loudspeakers: "I hereby declare these Fourth Olympic Winter Games of the year 1936, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, open." In a steel bowl high up above the stadium on one side of the ski-jump, a pale spout of flame from...
...promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer, a Colorado Methodist preacher, who used skis to carry mail to his parishioners in the early 1850's. Norwegians in the Midwest organized the first U. S. ski-jumping tournament...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...