Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, the boys have adopted a high-laced boot cut on heavy ski-boot lines, which makes an impressive clatter in high-school corridors. For girls, the ballerina slipper is fashionable for anything from study hall to football games. In either sex, of course, only a "squeegie" would wear...
...this job, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Ltd. was fitting a single-engined Norseman, with $20,000 worth of extras: hydraulically operated ski-wheels plus floats, spare fuel tank, radio altimeter and a special compass for polar navigation. At month's end the plane will be tested, then dismantled, crated and shipped to the Falkland Islands...
...Ski Club yesterday elected Leonard Wilson, president; Bill Wasserman, treasurer; and Jim Weaver, secretary...
When the body was located a grappling iron was lowered and hooked onto the ski clothing. Then ropes were tied around the legs and the body hauled out of the tunnel. A fresh crew was called in to carry the body down on a stretcher to Pinkham Notch, two miles distant...
Recent graduates took five of the first 20 places. Gus Klein of the Engineering School came in second just 3.6 seconds behind the winner, Stewart of Dartmouth, who was a member of this year's Olympic ski team. Bob Fisher came in seventh, Bob Wood, eleventh, Roger Wilson, fourteenth, and Vin Brandt, seventeenth. Crimson captain Graham Taylor came in ninth in 54.0, closely followed by Gordon Abbott, tenth. Captain elect Rod Nordblom was twelfth, Don Justus, thirteenth, and Laurie Grifflin fifteenth...