Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway 3.50 Kearsage Hotel, Portsmouth 1.50 Laconia Tavern, Laconia 1.50 Lancaster Inn, Lancaster 4.00 Lebanon Inn, Lebanon 1.50 Lee's Hotel, Littleton 3.50 Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln 4.00 McKenzies, Franconia 5.00 Mount Bolknap Hotel, Lakeport 1.50 Mount Madison House, Gorham 4.00 Mount Prospect Lodge, Plymouth...
Reprinted for the benefit of beginners from an article written last year for the CRIMSON by Norwod Cox, ski coach...
Many beginners are under the illusion-that waxing is just for experts who want their skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong, as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent backsliding and saving considerable energy...
...Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a tough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back of the ski...
Dancer Astaire plays Jerry Halliday, an American musicomedy star involved in a muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth...