Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
Four Crimson jumpers will journey to Lake Placid this vacation to compete with the crack ski teams from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Cornell, Ottawa, St. Patricks, Toronto, McGill, Williams and Princeton colleges...
...C.C.C. workers, for example, have been largely instrumental in making skiing a sport that can be enjoyed by everyone. A few years ago skiing consisted principally in "jumping". To the average person it was a hazardous sport at best, to be indulged in only by experts. However, various C.C.C. units went building ski runs of varying grades and distances, without any jumps, so that now a person may pick the steepness of his run according to his own ability and daring. In some of the most modern resorts there are cables by means of which weary skiers may be pulled...
...Harmon further points out that although few people realize it, woman's fashions have played an important part in drawing interest to winter sports. Last year Vogue and Harper's Bazaar featured women's ski and skating outfits, and at present the large department stores are extensively advertising attractive ski and snow suits for women. One New York store has even gone so far as to place a ski run made of borax and pine needles in its sports department to enable beginners to try themselves...
Coach Charley Proctor, who followed him, spoke about conditioning for the various events and the work of the Classification Committee. Movies of past ski races were afterwards shown...