Word: ski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ski enthusiasts might see Harvard defeat Dartmouth on the slopes this winter, now that Dartmouth's Dick Durrances and Eddie Wellses have become alumni. Four Crimson skiers placed high Saturday in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association open downhill meet at Stowe, Vermont, competing against the country's experts. Captain Bill Hinton finished twelfth in a field of thirty-two, with Gale Burton finishing sixteenth, John Pierpont, seventeenth, and Jesse Thomas, twenty-fifty. Of the quartet, only Pierpont is a senior, while Hinton and Burton are Sophomores. Thomas is a freshman...
Plans call for the building of a tramway, a 50-room lodge at the summit, an observation platform, a concessions building and a series of over-night cabius on the mountain top. There will be numerous trails for the expert and the novice skier, a bob-sled run, a ski jump, a skating rink, a toboggan slide, and open slopes...
...Poor ski conditions are prevalent throughout New England this week-end, latest reports indicate. Mount Mansfield at Stowe, Vermont, provides the only hopeful signs...
...Boston and Maine railroad, will run one ski train Sunday through Crawford Notch to Fabyan, New Hampshire, leaving Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning and returning the same evening. Crawford Notch has ten inches of snow, while Fabyan...
...north. Recently, scudding high over the bleak Canadian wastes near White Horse, Pilot Sheldon Loucke's eye was caught by an unusual tangle of tracks in the snow near an isolated cabin. Circling down, he saw that they spelled out HELP. Pilot Loucke picked a spot, brought his ski-shod airplane down near the cabin. The anxious wife of a trapper laid low by blood poisoning had tramped out the words. A few hours later the trapper was in the hospital at White Horse, last week was reported recovering...