Word: glides
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Many beginners are under the illusion that waxing is just for experts who want their skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent back-sliding and saving considerable energy...
...naturally visible only from the Harvard side. Those behind the goals just get a confused impression of changing color, and those on the Navy side see only the cards being turned. So until the H. A. A. teaches the Crimson cheering section to flip cards as well as they glide paper airplanes into the end zones, there will always be a great demand for Harvard side seats, and a great void on the opposite side as long as the Harlowmen meet teams whose followers spin cards...
...Down within 200 ft. above it swooped a trim red Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
...swept the bicycling world upon the announcement, for such action seems unnecessary in the light of present-day conditions. At Yale, at Princeton, at Oxford, and at Cambridge, students and faculty members ride where they please. At Wellesley and Smith, timid old ladies show no outward fear as bicycles glide silently by them...
...last week, the airport radio operator heard the calm voice of United Airlines Pilot H. A. ("No Collision") Collison report that his big, twin-motored Boeing transport, bound from San Francisco to New York with twelve aboard, was but a few miles away, 4,000 ft. up, ready to glide down for the scheduled Cheyenne landing. Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came no sound of the pilot's voice...