Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Light snow falling, temperature three below zero, 18 inches frozen base. Best skiing on Smuggler's Notch auto road...
...Snow turning to rain, three inch base...
Owing to the unseasonable snow conditions the University Open Ski Meet originally scheduled for January 10th has been indefinitely postponed. An informal meet will be held sometime before the Dartmouth Winter Carnival to pick eight men to compete...
Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski ability of Hannes Schneider. Its popularity with Boston and especially Harvard is shown in the fact that today it enters its fifth week of showing. Laid in the spacious, snow-deepened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production gives an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. even though one doesn't know much about skiing, the feats and easy grace of the fifty or more skiers must be admired. Men and snow make a beautiful combination, anyway, and when skis are added, the result...
...shadow of a plot helps to sustain the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foxes" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a mad chase ensues, and up great slops of crusty snow, down mountains perilous with crevices, and over the expansive ranges of the Tyrol the two are tracked by fifty pairs of skis. Rich comedy is afforded by a ludicrous dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...