Word: thunderbolt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being the top of the world...
...street as Don Budge. He got early pointers from Don's brother, Lloyd; later became a protégé of George Hudson, coach at the famed Berkeley Tennis Club. Two years ago Hudson's boy attracted the attention of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee. His thunderbolt service, devastating backhand and deadly overhead game-fully as potent as the play Don Budge displayed on his first trip East-made him look like a successor to Budge...
...second year Japan's slowing thunderbolt almost rolled to a stop. Only major successes were the capture of Hankow, where the Government had lighted after the fall of Nanking, and whence it moved on to Chungking (TIME, Feb. 21, 1938); the dreadful bombing and subsequent capture of Canton (TIME, June 30, 1938), cutting off the supply route from Britain's Hong Kong to the interior; the investment of most of the coast line as far down as Hong Kong; the occupation, for strategic reasons, of Hainan Island; and terrific bombings of Chungking-which served to consolidate rather than...
...snow pocket only 200 miles from Boston and 333 from Manhattan, Stowe, Vt. always has snow (from December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine, a natural snow bowl near the top of Mt. Washington, nearest approach to an Alpine ski run east...
...group is to race in the Massachusetts State Championships on the "Thunderbolt" ski trail at Mt. Greylock for downhill practice. It will be led by Finn Ferner who was barred from the team competing at the Dartmouth Carnival last Friday because his rating with the University was considered that of a graduate student...