Word: skiing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
That he is an excellent gentleman and worthy to meet the manager of the Giants as well as to ski in Scandinavia is beyond doubt. His democracy--something now supposed the special prerogative of princes--has made him beloved by his nation and feted by this. And in this feting there lurks a whimsical truth concerning the genus Americans, namely, that being good republicans they do like princes...
...this event. Hoff, world's pole vault record holder, and all-around Norwegian athlete, has decided to try his luck in the middle distance. He has been spending his training season at Dartmouth, getting into shape for the big meets. He is, besides, said to be an experienced ski-jumper, but did not go in for this sport while at Hanover because of the risk of injury...
...Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains; to be in love, just at first and then really. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young...
...pronuniciation Sh-trin-ski, as given by TIME, is identical to the sound emitted over the telephone by the Polish Vice Consul in New York, Mr. Stalinski...