Word: slides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage setting of a wintersports show is more remarkable than the show. A good deal of what the 12,000 winter-famished New Yorkers, who packed Madison Square Garden every night, watched last week they could have seen gratis on many a country hillside. Skiers shot off the slide in jumps about one-half as long as good outdoor jumps, gave demonstrations of rudimentary turns. Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter resorts...
...become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports shows in Boston last year and last fortnight...
...week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main slides fair in spots. Some slopes still skiable, but lower...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week was to open a winter sports show, complete with a ski slide covered with snow-like ground ice. Two days before workmen began installing equipment for this commercial venture the Garden was the scene of a less publicized, less spectacular event. Paying nothing to get in, 18,000 New Yorkers settled themselves among its 20,000 seats. There was music by a Salvation Army band, a massed choir from city churches, a single speech. The speaker was that ever zealous Methodist Missionary, Rev. Dr. E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones. Cried...
Utterly dezed, students depart from examinations forgetting every imaginable possession, including watches, wallets, books, fountain pens, slide rules, clothes, and even food, according to the results of a recent investigation...