Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, Colonial asked CAB if it wouldn't just skip the hearing and issue an order one way or the other. In support of its free-ski policy, Colonial added: "Skis are standard apparel for many people during many months of the year. To charge extra for a pair of skis would be tantamount to charging extra for a pair of overshoes." But at week's end, ponderous CAB had not yet terminated or illuminated its obscuration...
With mixed feelings, University of California's President Robert G. Sproul called them "D.A.R.s" (Damned Average Raisers). Said Georgetown University Student John Mislan, 25, ex-ski trooper and veteran of four months' combat in Italy: "The majority of veterans are pushing their education too fast. They are running but they don't know what they are running...
...British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since he was a boy, and he had lifted the museums' rarities...
Concluding its 1946-47 season, the Ski Club last night elected Bramwell Arnold '48 of Winthrop House as president. The other new officers include George B. Heller '46 of Leverett House as secretary and Leonard U. Wilson '49 of Brookline as treasurer...
Other features of the program, which will last from 6 to 12 o'clock, are a Chinese supper, a variety show, a ski movie, and booths for fortune telling and certain unspecified games...