Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engraving from a sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...
...clear cold air they flew high, trailing a thin line of vapor from their exhausts, dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north shore of Laatokka. Correspondent James Aldridge left it, "majestic in the moonlight." one midnight. The next...
...preparation for the all-important Intercollegiate Ski Union meet on February 17 and 18, the ski team will split into two groups for rigorous training this weekend...
...group is to race in the Massachusetts State Championships on the "Thunderbolt" ski trail at Mt. Greylock for downhill practice. It will be led by Finn Ferner who was barred from the team competing at the Dartmouth Carnival last Friday because his rating with the University was considered that of a graduate student...
...second group, led by Captain Tom Winship, goes to durham, New Hampshire for jumping practice on Saturday and will then proceed to the Ski Club cabin at Jackson. Here they will receive slalom and cross-country instruction from part-time Coach Hermann Ostermaier...