Word: ski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for most accidents is that too many people go too fast when they can't really ski." he said. "They haven't learned the principles of stemming which is the basis of all skiing. If you don't learn that, you're sunk...
Yesterday was a nice day, but sort of dull. There was nothing cosmic in it; it was really trivial: too warm to ski, too wet to play touch football. So the four roommates were in their rooms, sitting quietly...
Norwood Cox, coach of he Harvard Ski team was in the Harvard Coop booth at the Winter Sports Show last night. He started skiing in 1921 and turned professional when in college at Grenable, France, in 1920; taught in Italy and in Denver at the Colorado-Arlberg Ski Club. Cox intends to act as a part time coach of the Harvard team this winter...
...Cross is taking an interest in the safety campaign, inaugurated by Charles M. Dole of New York, president of the newly-formed National Ski Patrol Dr. L. M. Thompson of the Washington headquarters will sit in at the convention of the National Ski Association at Milwaukee today. He is scheduled to report on nationally organized skiing safety plans...
Cranmore Mountain, about half a mile from Eastern Slope Inn at North Conway, New Hampshire, is the site of a unique experiment in ski tramways. Since last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...