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...that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would be more safe while grasping the pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great, long and short pullers-in) and connect the femur (the thigh bone, the longest in the body) to the front lower ridges of the sacrum. They adduct the thighs powerfully and are especially used in horse exercise, the saddle being grasped between the knees by their contraction. (The gracilis, the most superficial muscle of the inner aspect of the thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Horse Riding | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...practice in writing on gleanings from the newspapers develops the 'daily theme eye,' which is to the writer what color values are to the artist; that is, the ability daily to see possibilities in and connect ideas with, seemingly insignificant subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDITORIAL COMPETITION TO START THIS EVENING | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

...proposed footbridge across the Charles River, which will be built at the foot of De Wolfe Street, about 300 yards downstream from the Weld Boathouse, and will connect the Business School with the University proper, is to be named the John W. Weeks Bridge in honor of the former Secretary of War. The University and the Commonwealth have received a gift from former business associates of Secretary Weeks and those who have since been admitted to the firm of which he was one of the founders, for the building of the bridge in commemoration of his achievements in behalf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Footbridge Will Honor Former Secretary of War | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...game was on Holmes Field, and perched up on the top row of the bleachers were Frederick Winsor '93, and Maynard Ladd '94, to write up the game. But new to connect Winsor and Ladd with Mac and Ed? Again Hunt, overcomer of obstacles, came through with one of his schemes. He corralled a lot of boys with bicycles, and as fast as Winsor and Ladd would get a bunch of copy written, they would wrap it around a stone and drop it over the bleachers to one of the young bicyclists waiting below, and away it would go across...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON EXTRA ACCORDING TO PRECEDENT WILL MEET RETURNING HORDES AT BRIDGE | 10/24/1925 | See Source »

...most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAPPED--ONE WILY WELSHMAN | 10/20/1925 | See Source »

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