Word: skier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
...make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
Joseph Dodge of the Appalachian Club, who led the rescue crew in its risky task, said it was Schiller's first visit to Tuckerman's Ravine, and that he was not a proficient skier...
...skier believed to be Paul K. Schiller, special researcher at the Psychology Lab, toppled into a 100 feet crevice near the top of Tucker man's Ravine headwall yesterday and is now feared to be dead...
According to witnesses, the skier made a sweeping turn on the headwall lip, lost his balance, and plunged into a stream of frigid water at the bottom of the crack. Rescue workers dug shafts in the sides of the crevasse and were able to catch sight of the victim's skis...