Word: skiing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rolf Sinerton, a Norwegian living in Montreal, traveled 112 feet off a snowbank, won the ski-jumping championship of Canada...
When U. S. citizens go to Canada it is usually for primitive reasons-to shoot or fish, to ski or skate, to eat, drink or make honeymoon. Secretary of State Kellogg had out his top hat and went to Canada last week. But his was a highly civilized reason. He went to pay back the ceremonious call which Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King paid the U. S. last autumn (TIME...
...visitors viewed hockey apathetically, since this country entered no team and the Canadian six was obviously unbeatable by Europeans. Norway took opening honors with victory in the military patrol ski test. Twenty miles racing through steep mountain passes with rifles, rations and field equipment did for a French entrant who was carried in by his team companions delirious with exhaustion. Popular protests forecast cancellation of the cruel test in future games. Norwegians also won opening honors in speed skating with Finland on their steel heels, U. S. third...
...universities, what prom week is to academies for young ladies, what the Yale game is to Harvard--all that and more is Carnival to Dartmouth College. But there are certain requisites in order that the occasion may, be successful: the first is a quantity of snow--the better to ski with, my dear. One is told that Jupiter-Pluvius, or whoever arranges such things, has never yet failed Dartmouth College. There has always been snow for Carnival. The night may have closed on a green world but dawn was huge drifts on the white Mountains...
...great Paderewski is called Paderooski, or Paderefski, with Ignaz or Ignace for a first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils...