Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow at Lake Placid, N.Y. was deep and powdery last week, and the temperature was a shivery 3° above zero. At one-minute intervals, the 39 best college skiers in the East struck out crosscountry on their narrow racing skis. Tiny, ski-minded St. Lawrence University won Lake Placid's Langlauf (its skiers finished first & second) and won the tournament as well...
...thousand miles away, beneath Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains in glossy Sun Valley, Utah's team skied to victory last week in the West's intercollegiate championship meet against 125 entrants from 25 colleges. What looked to be the biggest & best U.S. ski season on record had begun...
...fever, which afflicted only a few thousand people 15 years ago and now strikes nearly 3,000,000, was still rising. In New Hampshire, where skiing is good business as well as good fun, there were 52 tows, aerial tramways(and a skimobile) operating; the previous high: 35. Every inn and farmhouse near Vermont's famed runs (among them: Suicide Six, Nose Dive, John Doe's Misery) was heavily booked, at from $2 to $20 a day. This week, the season's first ski train chugged out of Boston's North Station...
Wild gusts of fine powder buffeted the Harvard Ski hut in Jackson, New Hampshire last night, and seemed to be heading toward Pinkham Notch, according to a late report from the Weather Bureau station of Mt. Washington...
Snowed under by their lack of practice, the Ski team, slid into a seventh place position out of a field of ten on New Year's Day in the College Week competition at Lake Placid...