Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France was said to be ready to send 10,000 Alpine chasseurs, skilled in ski warfare...
...bear the blue swastika of the Finnish Air Force bombed Liinahamari, Finnish port for Petsamo and now Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
Harvard skiers were widely separated this Christmas vacation, with snow conditions only good in scattered parts of New England. The ski team entered its first meet of the year at Lake Placid, New York, and showed that it has a bright future by placing second, close behind the expert Middlebury squad...
Yale barely nosed out Williams for third place in the field of 12 colleges. Competition was close throughout the whole meet, but Eddie Gignac, diminutive all-around Kanone from the Black Panther squad, was far above the rest of the boys in winning the Ski Moister trophy, awarded to the best four-event skier...
...Cabin at Jackson, New Hampshire, received its christening during the past two weeks at 15 members of the Ski Club used it for a base of operations, driving over to Cannon Mountain when the snow was bad in the Pinkham region. Herman Ostermeyer, instructor at the Eastern Slope school, acted as unofficial coach and gave pointers to the boys as they needed them...