Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuzzy-wuzzy caterpillar is sporting wide stripes these days, and to all ski enthusiasts, this is as sure an indication as any that the oncoming winter will be a good one. And even before the snow came to Cambridge last weekend; the Crimson ski team was limbering itself up in preparation for what it hopes will be its best season since...
Harry C. Gibson '53, club president, said yesterday that the club wants to become incorporated in order to facilitate ownership of a ski lodge in Jaffrey, N.H., and a hearse for transportation to and from the lodge...
...other experiments, the hydro-ski has been mounted beneath the fuselage of a sleek new fighter with no flotation gear at all. In takeoffs, the fighter moves out from shallow water, its ski sliding along the bottom. As soon as it picks up speed and the ski cuts to the surface, the plane can skim over deep water for its take-off run. Once in the air, the hydro-ski can be retracted. After touching down, the pilot has to taxi fast enough for his plane to stay on the surface until he is close to beach or landing ramp...
...Hydro-ski aircraft, said Floberg, would be handy in many situations for which the U.S. now has no practical plane. They could be based in the protected water of forward areas before airfields are built. In some cases they might do away entirely with the necessity of building an expensive runway on land. They could also be used to protect long-range bombers, landing at sea to refuel from submarines or high-speed surface craft...
...Arnberg, national four-event ski champion from Dartmouth, also played...