Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winter may find himself outwitted, even if he holds back all snow, for the entries are coming in so well that the U.S.E.A.S.A. announces that it is making tentative plans to hold the meet anyhow, using shaved ice for the slope of the runway and the hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with...
...able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died. At week's end two other passengers had also died...
Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...
...Western Massachusetts open slope skiing is reported at Greenfield. The trails on Greylock are insufficiently covered to allow any running but some of the open slopes on the north side of the mountain have two inches of powder snow over a thin frozen base...
...brought 21 pieces of luggage including two gramophones, six pairs of skis. Their Royal Highnesses publicly drank whiskey & soda at teatime, insisted on Polish dishes (item: hare in cream with beets) in the dining room. While Bridegroom Bernhard ski-jored behind a sleigh, Bride Juliana skied on a practice slope before a trainer and 47 cameramen, good-naturedly taking frequent spills and crying the only two Polish words she had learned: "Don't photograph!" Considering how ably the world press can hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press applause this week for the autocratic, aristocratic Dutch...