Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dynamic Mrs. Dorothy Christie, wife of a Montreal ski maker, most women's war work is "a lot of hooey." Embarked on a hooeyless project of her own design, she is now collecting the last of a flood of dimes, quarters and dollars from other Canadian women named Dorothy, which should in a week or so pay for a Spitfire for the R.A.F...
...life on Lake Erie on October 5, 1940. He was twenty-six years old. As an undergraduate, he won the Harvard Senior Sculls Championship in 1937, was manager of the varsity 150-pound crew, was on the Business Board of the Red Book, was a member of the ski squad and cross country squad, was a member of the Mountaineering Club, and was manager of the Lowell House golf team. He prepared for college at Belmont Hill School. In 1938, he won the American Henley Double Sculls Championship...
Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...
After trying unsuccessfully for three years to beat Harvard in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom in Tucker man's Ravino, the Hanover skiers yesterday gained a decisive victory over the Crimson. This race marks the end of the official ski-racing season, since the inferno from the top of the Headwall has been canceled for lack of snow on the Sherburne trail...
Winding up the official ski-racing season at Pinkham Notch when most students are already tossing baseballs or rowing, the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom on the Tuckerman Ravine headwall will attract an estimated 50 or more racers from both colleges next Sunday...