Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although New England weather is unpredictable until it arrives, the chances are that it will snow sometime this winter. With this thought in mind, a meeting has been scheduled at 7:30 tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room for all men interested in trying out for the Ski team...
...editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoon showing one set of ski tracks passing both sides of a tree (see cut). From Heute's literal-minded German readers came a flood of confident answers. Samples...
...skier had slipped one foot out of his ski boot as he approached the tree, slipped it back after he passed...
...jobs, by recommendation of other researchers or editors, or by chance; the rest turned up via our college-trainee system, as copy girls, etc. All but a few have held other jobs-as researchers of all types; reporters, copyreaders and editors for various periodicals; as private secretaries, ballistics experts, ski salesmen, economic analysts. One spent ten years in the U.S. Foreign Service; another taught riveting & drilling in an industrial plant...
...Exeter boy of tomorrow will spend more time studying music and art ("and I don't just mean appreciation") and working with woods and metals in shops. Bill Saltonstall, a handy man himself, is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and gangling, with the same ski-run jaw and long nose as his cousin, Senator Leverett Saltonstall. At Harvard, Bill won letters in football, crew and hockey, and still helps coach the Exeter hockey...