Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kanone is an expert skier, and skiing is one of the few sports at which women become expert. Discouraged from jumping (too dangerous) and cross-country running (too tiring), women have adopted the most becoming ski sport: downhill racing. Even so, whooshing down a mountainside at 40 m.p.h. requires steel nerves, stamina, split-second thinking. Not by seconds but by fractions of seconds are races often won & lost...
Last week thousands of U.S. ski fans crammed the sidelines at Lake Placid's Rim Rock run. Like most downhill meets, the races were divided into two sections: the straight-down (popularly called the downhill) and the slalom,* a zigzag course defined by pairs of flags which skiers must thread...
...flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...
...ski clubs played second fiddle to the Hochgebirgers in their twelfth annual meet the last weekend at Franconia, N. H., with the Harvard Schussers and the Plymouth (N.H.) club swapping second and third places in the downhill and slalom...
...movie has had two long runs in Boston at the Fine Arts, once having a continuous showing of over six months. It features Hannes Schneider, one of the greatest European ski instructors, who is now teaching at his own school at North Conway...