Word: telemarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first in Russia, then in the Alps. Officers whom he had taught at St. Anton got him the job of teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed standing upright, with the paunch extended, shoulders back. Hannes Schneider elaborated the racy Christiania-executed in a crouch with the shoulders forward, paunch tucked...
...York, New Haven & Hartford and New York Central are running snow trains, expect to take 2,000 skiers to snow every weekend. Skiing started in prehistoric Scandinavia. Long practiced for utility, it became a sport in 1879, when the King of Norway promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer...
...amazing rate. Soon there was scarcely a man in college without his pair of skis, and the highways and byways around Hanover were all given over to the demands of this new sport. Several different kinds of skis appeared, old too straps gave place to daredevil harnesses, and "telemark" and "christiana" turns became topics of general discussion. It is said that the college had never fallen so quickly for any other new sport as it did in 1910 for skiing...
...supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...