Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junior year because he had cut 120 more classes than the rules allowed. "I'd look out the window in the morning," he said, "and decide it was snowing too hard to go to class. Then in the afternoon, I'd decide I'd better ski. I didn't know where in hell I was going. Up until the war my life had amounted to zero, zero, zero...
...every skier knows, waxing a ski makes it slide more easily over snow. Applying wax to wood has become a ritual and a pseudo-science among skiers. But it may soon become a lost art. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced the first successful all-metal ski. It needs no waxing...
Made of magnesium (aluminum proved too costly), the new, non-splintering, un-warpable slat travels a hot 10% faster than hickory on a 20° slope, is just as flexible. In its strength lies the new ski's lone weakness: so easily does magnesium glide over snow that herringboning or side stepping is likely to be a backsliding proposition. Once on the market (next year perhaps), the magnesium ski promises new records for the expert, extra pratfalls for the novice...
...Ski team aspirants began training with Jaakko Mikkola's cross country runners yesterday afternoon for a long, 11-meet schedule beginning with the Lake Placid Carnival, December 27, and extending well into next March...
...Grimley and Al Butler, both in NROTC, form the experienced nucleus of those who have already applied for their Eastern Slope Amateur Ski Association memberships...