Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although final positions have not yet been figured out, four Harvard skiers finished near-the head of 100 Third Class championship racers in a slide over the Mount Gunstock trail at Laconia, New Hampshire, yesterday...
...Dartmouth, in 1908, the groups huddled around fraternity-house fireplaces had two subjects for disgruntled conversation: the cold weather and an eccentric sophomore named Fred Harris who went outdoors every afternoon to slide down the New Hampshire hills on two long sticks. Of Dartmouth's many alumni, distinguished and otherwise, none has served his alma mater more effectively than Skier Harris. From his odd idea of entertainment developed the Dartmouth Outing Club, the legend of a "college on skis" that made last week's 25th annual Winter Carnival one of the brightest happenings on the calendar...
...skiing events that are the Carnival's backbone. A Floridian who learned to ski in Germany, considered by Dartmouth's grizzled Coach Otto Schniebs the best amateur downhill skier in the U. S., Durrance won the downhill race-a precipitous mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth...
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Explanation of this pioneering boomlet : Every S. S. is guaranteed to do between 85 and 90 m. p. h., between 20 and 25 miles per gallon, comes equipped with extremely low-slung English four-seater bodies having slide-open "sunshine roofs," cocktail trays opening behind the front seat and other Mayfair niceties. Finally an S. S. has won the premier award at every Concours d'Elégance Automobile held for the past four years in Cannes, Deauville and Biarritz...