Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever minor difficulties lie in the steep and thorny way, a concentrated effort on the part of the present Council can overcome them. And if the attempt to perpetuate a body more capable of dealing with all the problems that arise in the course of undergraduate administration is successful, the present members will have made a real contribution to the future of the college...
...become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch not only became the accepted way to ski but, by making skiing easier, made it popular all over the world. Hired...
Probably the best known of the local ski rendevous is the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. This is but a fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...
...much to encourage Winter Sports, it has the best natural hills for those who prefer the open slope type of skiing. Located in Newton, within ten minutes drive or a half an hour on the trolley, this location is also the nearest to Cambridge and the most accessible. One steep slope of a quarter mile in width has enough trees to delight the skier who likes to run a slalom course at high speed. The only drawback to the Commonwealth slope is that it is apt to have a crowd of tobogganists flying down the hill out of control...
...work per year he is worse off than the 50? day laborer who has year-round employment. Trouble has always been that automobile sales were highly seasonal, rising to tremendous peaks in April and May, dropping into deep valleys in November and December. Production and employment followed the same steep curves. This pattern was cut in the industry's youth when 99% of all cars were open models and winter motoring was considered a sport. Even after the proportion of closed to open models was precisely reversed in the 1920's, old buying habits lingered...