Word: skied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Japanese had never heard of the sport called skiing until 1902, when 200 Nipponese soldiers were lost in winter maneuvers on the snow-covered slopes of Mount Hakkota, and the Japanese Minister to Sweden rushed a shipment of Swedish skiing equipment back to his native land for rescue work. In the succeeding decades, the Japanese began to get the hang of the herringbone climb and the Christiania turn, and skiing became one of Japan's top winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled...
Competing at the Norwich University Winter Carnival at Northfield, Vermont yesterday, the varsity ski team placed third in the cross country and last in the down hill events out of a field of seven...
Tomorrow members of the team will compete at three other invitation meets: the Brattlebore 60 Meter Open Invitation Jump; the Gibson Trophy Giant Slalom at North Conway; and the Winnepesankee Giant Slalom at the Mt. Belknap ski area near Laconia...
...varsity squash and ski teams lead off Harvard's weekend competition today. Jack Barnaby's racquet men entertain Penn at 2 p.m. at Hemenway Gym; eight skiers will take part in Norwich University's Winter Carnival at Northfield, Vermont, today and tomorrow...
...Justice, Skiddy Lund, John Hart, Henry Horner, John Houser, Bill Wasserman, Jim Weaver, and Len Wilson will make the ski trip to Northfield...