Word: skiing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that the Air Service, U. S. Navy Department, would assist Explorer Donald B. MacMillan in his ninth expedition to the Arctic, upon which he intends to embark next June. Two Navy planes, of the Loening Amphibian type, would be lent, complete with volunteer pilot-mechanicians, sheltered cabins, ski-gear for landing on ice and snow...
...revels, games. McGill, not being a member of the intercollegiate winter sports union, was not concerned in the score, though ardently it competed with the others. Contestants webbed their feet with snowshoes, raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they shot down a steep bank on skis and into the air from a great steel thank-you-ma'am. Other events were: fancy figure skating, 3-mile snow-shoe cross-country race...
...delegation from the National Ski Association, including Senator Norbeck (S. D.), Representative Knutson, Kvale and Wefald (Minn.) and Minister Bryn of Norway, called at the White House and presented Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge each with a pair of skis. Out behind the White House office, they tied them on and were photographed...
...kilometre ski race was won by Haug of Norway in 1 hour, 14 minutes, 3 seconds. The U. S. failed to place. Its leading man, Sigurd Overby of St. Paul, came in 20th of 44 entrants. Other Americans finished 31st, 34th, 36th...
...ski jumping Thams, Bonna and Haug of Norway were awarded the first three places, with Anders Haugen of Minneapolis, fourth, for America. Haugen's jump of 50 metres was from 1 to 5½ metres longer than that of any of the three Norwegians, but the judges placed them ahead of him on the ground that their form was superior...