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...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, is relatively weak...
Rodin said of him, "Mestrovic is the greatest phenomenon amongst the sculptors". Speaking of the Jugo Slav artist, James Bone. Director of the Modern Art Gallery of the British Museum, has said, "In sculpture an artist must have a message if he is to be known to his generation. He must also have unusual resolution and initiative on account of the practical disadvantages of intractable and costly material and the scarcity of commissions. So under modern conditions there are few sculptors with reputation, and the advent of a new genius is a matter of real importance to Europe, and calls...
Last week Senator Cummins of Iowa introduced into the Senate a new transportation bill?a bill which seems destined to be a bone of contention. These are, by and large, its provisions...
...serious-minded queried: "What were the deputies shouting about this time?" The bone of contention, it seems, was the new proposal virtually suppressing local self-government in 7500 of Italy's 9,000 municipalities and replacing the locally elected mayors and town councils by appointees of the Central Government to be known as "podestas" (TIME...
This society, under the direction of its secretary, Joseph B. Thoburn, exploring Big Mouth Cave, discovered a large number of bone tools and implements such as needles, awls, fishhooks, etc., as well as a number of articles made of stone. In some mounds excavated by the same party a number of pieces of pottery were found together with stone pipes, ear plugs that show evidence of having been covered with copper, and several copper ornaments. Is this not worthy of mention...