Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, Merrill ("Mezzie") Barber and Army Lieut. Arthur Devlin proved themselves head & shoulders above the field-five fellow Americans, ten Canadians-in the annual invitation ski jump from Lake Placid's 70-meter Olympic Hill. Off the takeoff, 145-lb. Mezzie Barber, reached for altitude with revolving arms, then leaned forward from the ankles in wind-cutting power dives that carried him 218 and 223 feet. Artie Devlin, leaning more from his hips than ankles, jumped 220 feet on his first ride; but he let the wind get on top of his borrowed skis, made only 197 feet...
...past two years, the best U.S. jumpers have accented form over distance. So do Barber and Devlin, who have their postwar sights trained on Holmenkollen (just outside Oslo, Norway), where judges see ski jumping first as an art, then as a distance-devouring flight...
...border, warned Congressman Gonzalez, Argentina looked like a country already at war. The railroad to Zapala carried nothing but soldiers and supplies. A network of new military roads led threateningly toward Chile. At Las Lajas, near the frontier, were barracks for an entire division. The region was teeming with ski troops, mountain artillery and airplanes. The local inhabitants were kept in alarm by officially inspired rumors that Chile was about to attack Argentina. This, said Congressman Gonzalez, was the familiar Hitler technique of pretending to be a victim in order to victimize...
...them at Fargo. At last with a bewildered happy look, Neil Plantefaber, T. S. Smlty John White and Jim Rafferty strode of to meet Dave Schneider and Bob Weeks going up for some of the same. Weekend is the only man in the class beside Mr. Lindsay nursing a ski injury. He get his taking a suicide leap at Groton last week. Also at the Statler was the horn looking for the colt with no success "T Lad" was long ago occupied elsewhere...
...Harvard team placed only one point behind West Point, favorites to win the meet, but was 30 points in back of Middlebury and Dartmouth, who ultimately led the field. When the third of the Crimson's entries in the ski-jump failed to show up at Hanover, all hope of high ranking was lost...