Word: ski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans have been made by the Harvard Mountaineering Club to join the Sunday "Ski Special" of the Boston and Maine Railroad next Sunday, January 25, in their weekly outing trip in search of winter sports. The company has arranged a train which puts out from North Station at 8.30 o'clock in the morning every week loaded with enthusiasts...
...Alice, 1910 debutante; divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington who gardens; onetime president of the New York Junior League; famed amateur ski-jumper (last year's winner of the Swiss Gold Ski Prize for Women...
Harvard stops at ostentation, Yale at baggy trousers, Dartmouth at the end of the ski-jump, and Radcliffe at practically nothing. Such, in the monotonous nutshell, are the findings of a group of advanced psychology students from three of these four leaves of the New England clover of culture. Admittedly, and time spent pondering on the intrinsic meaning of the word "advanced psychologists" is a waste of time. The important matter before the readers yesterday of the Front Page, Valhalla of the Fourth Estate, was that the inmates of these four institutions have been forever set apart as types. There...
...their trousers and flaunted legs which never faced public eye before. Led by the Dartmouth and other organizations the movement spread rapidly in spite of a chilly wind that made action a requisite. Fox Movietone appeared and with it a group called the opposition dressed in sheepskins, fur coats, ski jackets, mufflers, and mittens--they suffered at the hands of the rebels. Attempts at a talkie were interrupted by continual catcalls, but the pictures were taken and Boston and New York newspapers carried glowing descriptions of the uprising. A rainy and cold day chilled the enthusiasm of the rebels...
...metre event for women at Amsterdam in 1928, in which several girls collapsed. Gustavus Kirby, U. S. delegate, led the opposition. The French proposal, finally put to vote, was overwhelmingly defeated. In the Olympic games of 1932 women will run, fence and hurdle, swim, skate and ski. Stadia. At Amsterdam there was only one training field. At Los Angeles there will be 15. Seat facilities of the Los Angeles stadium have been increased from 76,000 to 105,000. The Olympic Auditorium is ready with 12,000 seats for the boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting events. The museum next...