Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department had already informed Congress: "The clearing of the Red River was all but impossible." For 160 miles, it was blocked by a mass of ancient driftwood called the Great Raft- "so solid in places that a man could ride across it on horseback. Except for the Raft, the Red River would be navigable for a thousand miles." But Henry Shreve and his snag boat, amid bitter wrangling, red tape, lack of money, deaths from boiler explosions and cholera, cleared the Great Raft and opened the Red River...
These outings are the opening of the season before the snow files, with barn dances, bicycle, canoe and horseback excursions scheduled, as well as longer weekends with Smith and Mt. Holyoke...
...heroine, Ellen Rogers, belonged to Chicago's Catholic bourgeoisie. It was 1925, and Ellen was bored. She was too lazy to keep up her horseback riding or her piano lessons. She could not make up her mind whether to go to college or not. She did not get around to reading much. But she did get some fun out of tormenting mediocre boys. She was clearly a setup for a ruthless and clever man whose egoism would outweigh hers...
...started well. Like the Nazis, they had some fancy techniques of war, some streamlined theories of slavery. The tough soldiers could live for months on a porridge made from mare's milk. If without food they would draw blood from their horses' veins. They could stay on horseback for two days on end, dozing while the horses grazed. Each man took 18 horses with him, rode them in turns. In battle they executed their cavalry maneuvers in concert with extraordinary speed. They were organized in units of ten; if any of the ten were captured, the rest, after...
...Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years...