Word: beget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...
...that Signora Mussolini or the several little Mussolinis have had any softening effect on his political methods or tempered his jowly egotism with a sense of humor. The most power-crazy and pitiless of all the iron-chewers, Stalin, has taken time off from purging to marry twice and beget a daughter,* still in her teens, but if his love for her has made him go down on his hands and knees and say "Woof, woof!", we are not getting the straight dope from Russia these days...
...blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade ores to beget a new steel industry and a major market...
Modern surgery gave one Alexander Peter, Hungarian peasant, a bright idea when he wanted to mortgage his 320 acres. Legally that was impossible because the land was entailed for the successive benefit of any children Peasant Peter might beget before 1952. But Farmer Peter wanted to hypothecate some of the property to buy farm machinery. And although married, he had no children, wanted none, expected none. To convince the court which had jurisdiction of his farm that he was going to have none, he had a vasectomy performed on himself. This was only temporary emasculation, ruled the judges, and might...
...water minnows will. Ditches get stagnant and mosquito-filled. It is hoped and expected that from Palos Park's hole in the ground no single adult mosquito will fly-for which the valley's residents may thank their itching stars, for a single female mosquito can beget in a single season 75 times as many bloodthirsty offspring as there are human beings to bite on the face of the earth...