Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no doubt about it; Dartmouth is becoming ski-conscious. Everyone in New England is more or less familiar with the old story of the Dartmouth Outing Club. It has been often told how through the efforts of this group the Dartmouth undergraduate was persuaded to leave the warm stove about which he had formerly clung from December until April and to take advantage of skiing conditions that few other colleges enjoy. Then came the development of the unique Winter Carnival and the formation of a winter sports team, and Dartmouth became known as an "outdoor college...
Married, George Arthur ("Mike") Thorne Jr., ski and sledge man of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, grandson of the late George R. Thorne. co-founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Mrs. Elinor Gates Toerge, tennis player, trapshooter, golfer; at Brookville...
...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...
Austrians have been experimenting with such water skis for two or three years. Last November the device was perfected sufficiently for a demonstration at the Vienna Municipal Baths. There is an Austrian Water Ski Club, whose enthusiasts amble about on the Danube...
...their leisure hours there, reading, swimming, and basking in the sun. It might even turn into a "nudist colony"; then Yale would have something besides "architecture" for which it could be discussed all over the United States. And in the winter there would be an opportunity to skate and ski and tramp through the woods. It is really enjoyable at times to go off into the country, cook one's own food, sleep out of doors, all with a minimum of hardship...