Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ski--Invitation Team Giant Slalom (Eastern Slopes Ski Club) at North Conway...
Graham Taylor '49, ski team captain, placed sixth out of a class B field of 41 in the U.S. Eastern Cross Country Championships, Saturday, at Laconia, New Hampshire and moved into the class A bracket of national skiers...
...make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they tucked down their heads like monks in meditation and the sled picked up speed...
...despairing of quiet, picked up the paper and found himself reading the sports section. Then the Great Thing happened. It was a small headline: "Tribe, Sox Head South for Pre-Season Training." Very quietly he picked up a shattered half-ski and hefted it; cocking his wrists, he saw little white balls, not flakes, bouncing off the left field wall...
...Crimson victory over Yale in a five-way ski meet was the biggest news to come out of Lyndonville, Vermont, last weekend. It was no surprise that MIT's team of Norwegian exchange students took first place or that Williams and Norwich ended up fourth and fifth respectively...