Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what are you doing with a two iron," the ski instructor said to the novice. "I'm playing for the roll," the novice said...
...Jackson ski resort told of not only many skiers but also a great number of non-skiers who had gone north solely to admire the winter economy and White Mountain peaks, despite the plentiful snowfall farther South...
Last year's genuine ski enthusiasts at the Annex could have been transported to North Conway in a jeep. This year finds a Radcliffe Ski club, chartered by the Student Government Association; extra storage space set apart in the Quadrangle dormitories for ski equipment; entryways stacked with waxed lumber, and northward-bound parties large enough to fill a special...
...late great growth of schussing she attributes to fashion. "When department stores took ski clothes for girls out of the sporting goods shops and stocked the ski suits where they could be seen," she says, "they became part of the college wardrobe...
...most widely held theory, to explain this year's spurt, is a search for outdoor sport to break the winter grind with the books. "Studies are cramping," says Grace Tuttle '49. "Even on a nearby ski slope, college seems miles away." There's nothing like it to restore tired tissues after a round of examinations, says Betty Crowley '49. And Georgette Haigh '49 thinks that skiing provides the balance between study and recreation that is demanded by the new type of college girl...