Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with stiff competition and handicapped by late examinations and little snow, the ski team enters its first intercollegiate meet this weekend at Woodstock...
North Conway, Now Hampshire, will be the scene of the Eastern Slopes giant slalom race, in which a number of Freshmen and other undergraduates now staying at the Ski Club's cabin in Jackson will participate. More snow is needed on Cranmore Hill for the race, however. George Brett, Will Cochrane, Phil Thayer, Parker Reidy, and Bradley Cameron are scheduled to race, but the list will probably be swelled by the large Harvard contingent which has drifted up to the Eastern Slopes region after examinations...
...ski cabin, which has an ever-expanding capacity of 30 or thereabouts, is reported nearly full for the coming weekend. Will Cochrane has been in charge of the cabin for the past week, and he will be relieved for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by William Appel...
...dwelt lovingly on 100,000 Nazis facing annihilation. After fierce street fighting, the Red Armies entered a blazing Mozhaisk last week. But the fabulous 100,000 birds had apparently flown. The Red Army organ Krasnaya Zvedzda mentioned prisoners only once ("more than 100" captured by cavalry-supported ski troops), referred glibly to an unspecified number of Germans "retreating westward...
Eight official A.W.V.S. uniforms included breeches and boots for the cycle corps, ski-troop suits for workers in the far North (couriers, spotters, dogsled teamsters in Saranac, N.Y., Alaska, etc.). For A.W.V.S. fingernails, light polish was prescribed; hairdo: simple, preferably short, up off the neck...