Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter night when Edison put his invention on public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...
...hole wasn't big enough, Harvard was dealt another setback seconds into the second stanza. Junior Craig Adams, who had scored at least one goal in the Crimson's previous three games, took a brutal hit into the boards. The impact knocked his helmet to the ice and a mild concussion, 10 stitches to the forehead and a tender shoulder forced Adams to sit out the rest of the tournament...
...died last year, and now Yolanda lives with Tom. Their living room is filled with pictures of the whole family, but the most prominent keepsakes are Teddy's old Marshall helmet and an oil painting of a handsome young man in a green No. 14 jersey...
...most part, the East has a different philosophy in teaching horseback riding than the West does. I was taught how to ride in Wyoming by some cowboys who put me on a wild horse with no helmet and sent me off galloping into the sunset with a bunch of equally clueless beginners. Fortunately I survived this 'sink-or-swim' way of teaching without breaking my neck (only a few bruises), but obviously this is not how Boston Equestrian teaches riding or they'd in court every day facing massive lawsuits...
...last couple of years with Christopher Reeve's paralyzing accident and other fairly well-known figures getting injured by horses. Horseback riding is actually quite safe, especially if you are a beginner with an easy-going horse on a guided trail-ride and you pay attention and wear a helmet. It only starts to get more dangerous as your ability increases and you try to do more and more (such as jumping) with more high-strung horses...