Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's famed Governor, Alfred E. Smith, had won his spurs in his first murder case. Democrats who hope to see Governor Smith installed in the White House, saw in his son's success a new and good omen. For most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones,- witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft...
...prey of super-bandits, calling themselves "War Lords" for years; and all the inhabitants faced, last week, was the arrival of another army which might be a little more lenient about looting than the last, since its leaders profess the brotherhood of Chinese against the foreigner. But small disturbances bred riots; the streets of the native city seethed with turbulent and unorganized fighting. To the International Settlement, thousands of fugitive Chinese, 100 white Russians fled, sought refuge...
...musical instruments, were invited to hear musical tones, which most of them had never dreamed existed. On the stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed...
...record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied upon the slightly squat pure-bred Siberian variety, had lost to St. Goddard whose team was composed of rangier animals, half wolfhound, half Husky...
Captain Platt, the first speaker, refused to make any predictions. "A crew season contains too many turns of fortune to make any phrophecy justifiable," he said. "We are going to be up against crews with experience, and against well-bred rowing systems: most of our men are inexperienced, and our coaching system is as yet untried. Usually at these meetings the captain talks about beating Yale. But the Yale race is a long way off. That is not the important thing at present. The main thing needed now at the establishment of a new system, is confidence and a spirit...