Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saddle. In Amherst, Mass., 94 year-old Mrs. Lois Mitchell, horseback riding for the first time in 70 years, had a complaint: "I had to whip him to make him trot . . . Bicycling is more fun because I can put more vim into...
...Hand. In Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Lois Mitchell 94, decided to take up horseback riding again, explained that the unusually warm winter weather interfered with her skating...
...horseback, Radcliffe turned its back on the rough polo games of earlier times and now trots sedately at Good's Riding School in Medford. Crew went out two years ago when University facilities were no longer available for the female oarsmen. Sailing came in its stead, although only a limited number can enjoy the sport...
Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
This is the story of another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...