Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skum never saw a pencil until he was ten, but when he did finally get his hands on one he knew just what to do with it; he had practiced drawing with a ski pole in the snow. Drawing came naturally to Skum: he had a photographic memory of the vast white landscapes he moved through and of the runty reindeer he moved after. And Skum always had an uncanny feeling for the one thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found...
...over $7,000,000 in a single winter to clean snow from its streets. If artificial snowmaking proves effective, meteorologists will watch for supercooled clouds bearing down on a city. Airplanes will give them the dry ice treatment, making them dump their snow outside the city limits. Perhaps, if ski-minded, the weathermakers can shunt the snow to winter resorts...
With wax, poles, and boots out of the closet for the winter, the Harvard Ski Club will hold its first important winter meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The 33 man Club, which includes an active ski meet team in its midst, is anxious to expand to its limit...
...newly elected captain, Jim Bell, the Freshman soccer team will be look in for its sixth win of the season at the New Hampshire ski resort this Saturday. Although not much information has flittered through about the Dartmouth Freshman team if it has any of the class of the Varsity, it will be a stiff test for the Yardlings...
After a period of training which will begin shortly, several teams will be formed to participate in various meets each weekend, including qualified men for the Olympic trials. Freshmen may compete on the Varsity this year by a ruling of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, but there will also be a Freshman team...