Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowded streets remind us a thousand times a day that a great city is near. Pedestrianism is fast becoming impossible. If the wary walker manages to elude the traffic that girdles the Yard, he takes his life in his hands when he strolls by the Charles. Let him walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot...
...Oxford one is constantly reminded of the nearness of the country. From my college window I have a view unspoilt by houses: ahead of me stretches the broad green sweep of the Christ Church Meadows, broken by the tall noble trees bordering the Broad Walk, and far beyond them is the Isis. In the fields I often see horses grazing; it is a country view...
Oxford, unfortunately, has lately become the prey of commercial enterprise; the Morris-Cowley motor-car works are nearby, while suburbanizing influences have made North Oxford as ugly as Hinksey is squalid. But it is easy to escape this ugliness and squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good...
...habits have been regular. It is seldom that I have been late at mealtime and I have avoided keeping late hours. Very little work has been done before breakfast, but usually I have taken a short walk and during the winter season a more extended walk before dinner, which has been my chief mode of exercise. I have kept a couple of vibrating machines in my room which I found helpful...
...Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists...