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Word: skying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coached by Kris Berg, the former member of the Norwegian underground who left the field 16 seconds behind in the Gibson Trophy Race two weeks ago, the ski team, has recruited some expert material from among returnees and new students just entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Prepares For Coming Meets | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

Plans for the Harvard Invitation Meet at Big Bromley March 9 and 10 are almost completed, Kennedy announced yesterday, with unanimous acceptances promising to make it the biggest college ski event of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Prepares For Coming Meets | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...King and Hans Estin, both Freshmen, the ski team held a strong third place after Saturday's downhill and slalom events only to relinquish it Sunday when the cross-country and jumping scores were tallied at the Vermont Ski Union meet on Mt. Mansfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS WIN FOURTH PLACE IN VERMONT | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

...Ski Nose, Swan Shoulders. One of the best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cursed Painter | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with tales of how he worked his way through Bowdoin College by fiddling in a burlesque house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESORTS: Out of Hibernation | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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