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Word: telemarks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but are accomplished by swinging the weight of the body while thrusting one ski forward. They are more graceful and faster than stem turns, or the other great ski maneuver-the Telemark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure & Parallel | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure & Parallel | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages on Aug. 14, the market did a graceful telemark around still another formidable obstacle-prosperous third-quarter earning statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Slalom | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Skiing near Montpelier, Vt., Harvard's President James Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government" and "dangerous in the extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Immediately given first aid followed by a physician's treatment in the accident which resulted after a ski broke in a fast telemark, Conant was rushed to the home of his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Martin of Plainfield, Vermont, who were with him on the scene of the catastrophe, and thence by train to Boston. Current belief is that he will be confined to his home on Quincy Street for several days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CONDITION OF UNIVERSITY HEAD | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

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