Word: steamboated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs of Spring. Work was piled on his desk. He left it long enough to award Medals for Merit for wartime services to the F.B.I.'s stocky J. Edgar Hoover, the ODT's leathery John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, the Association of American Railroads' President John Jeremiah Pelley...
This week, with Steamboat Springs properly improved, four ski jumpers had no trouble breaking Tokle's course record of 248 feet, and three others tied...
...skier who outjumped them all, Torger ("Old Iron Legs") Tokle, used to say that if the ski jump at Steamboat Springs, Colo. were fixed up a bit, a new U.S. record could be set there. He did not live to see it: Sergeant Tokle of the skiborne 10th Mountain Division was killed in Italy...
...record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...
...saved up enough money by 1911 ($700) to realize a childhood desire: a trip around the world. With George A. (Why We Behave Like Human Beings) Dorsey he made the second steamboat trip in history up the Yangtze Gorges to the then inconspicuous city of Chungking. The Chinese along the rim knocked off work and crowded the banks, in a friendly way, "to watch us drown." The Chinese also liked to line up, at a courteous distance, to watch the foreigners handle knives & forks. One suppertime a missionary's wife, annoyed at their staring, slung a glass of water...