Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Easter vacation a number of men will take a six-day ski trip though the White Montains, and the annual dinner will come shortly after this on April 29, when it is expected that there will be several prominent visiting speakers to talk informally on mountain climbing here and abroad...
...fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books, found it hard to keep their footing. Japanese speed skaters were outdistanced; two Japanese...
...Ski-running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
...Ski-jumping. The length of a jump on sMs depends largely on the topography of the hill. Ski-jumpers, who use especially wide skis with three grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went...
Spectators. Admiral Byrd said he was looking for Norwegian ski-runners for his next polar expedition. Mayor James John Walker of New York said he was "recuperating." Mrs. Alfred Smith congratulated Mrs. Shea, wife of the town butcher whose son won the 500 & 1,500-meter skating championships...