Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian refugee now training in Canada with the Royal Norwegian Air Force and keeping his surname secret lest his family be punished: the U.S. ski-jumping championship; with a score of 230.2 points; dethroning Defending Champion Torger Tokle, another Norseman; before a crowd of 12,000; at Duluth, Minn. Tokle, who outjumped Ola but could not match his flawless form, has, since coming to the U.S. three years ago, captured 35 out of 39 tournaments, set 19 hill records, jumped 288 ft., a U.S. record...
Members of the Crimson ski team left yesterday for Stowe, Vt. to participate in the U.S.E.A.S.A. Downhill Slalom Championships. Among the members of the team in Vermont are Captain Finn Ferner '43, Tom Winship '42, Del Ames '43, Bungle King '42, and Duncan Reid...
Forced into last place at the Williams Carnival last week because late examinations prevented a full team from competing, the schussers are off again today in toto, this time, for the 32nd annual Dartmouth invitational ski meet at Hanover...
Thus the lone attraction will be the six-event ski contest, always packed with enough excitement and thrills however, to keep even the most blase individuals interested in the goings-on over the weekend. The heavy snowfall last night, added to the previous seven-inch base, will give the runners perfect conditions if the temperature stays...
...Hampshire delegation, which did not compete in the Williams Carnival, is the pre-meet favorite to repeat last year's triumph, although Dartmouth will be out to contest the supremacy of its downstate rivals from Durham. However, the favorite to capture the most spectacular of all ski events, the jumping, is Merrill Barber of Norwich University...