Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after Jan. 1 of this year, the Stephen Daye Press staff was gathered in conference to think of a good name for a series of ski cartoons which had been drawn by Max Barsis, author of one of our books, Bottoms Up: An Unreliable Handbook for Skiers. . . . Dubious suggestions from each one of us (witness skitoes, skiskits, skiddings, shinnies) were mentioned and howled down, when one of us suggested skidaddles, and another of us bridged the gap to skidoodles...
...occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...Mountains a close second. At the foot of Mt. Mansfield, snuggling in a snow pocket only 200 miles from Boston and 333 from Manhattan, Stowe, Vt. always has snow (from December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine, a natural snow bowl near...
...Harvard Ski Club team took third place yesterday in the fourth annual Schussverein Downhill race on Bear Mountain at Bartlett, New Hamshire. Leading the Crimson skiers were the Schussverein Ski Club and the A. M. C. The team beat the White Mountain Ski Runners and the Hochgebirge...
...next event scheduled for the Ski Club is the first annual dinner to be held on Wednesday at Gundalach's Hofbrau...