Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a composition as the letter in this column is more a custom than a grand mistake. Not one effort is made, except for those futile flairs of comradle which the Union attempts, to make them appreciate the comfort which is associated with a true Harvard existence, that comfort bred of being with active minds in social intercourse of that sort so much the heritage of the college proper...
Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan, with his hands in his pockets, stood looking at an Eskimo and chuckling from time to time in a delighted fashion, as if he were watching the progress of a practical joke. The Eskimo paid no attention to Captain MacMillan. A big, blubber-bred man with a crouching sinewy figure, a face creased by the wind and reddened by the sun, he tilted an eye at the Woolworth Building. "Big house, by jingo," he said mildly...
...Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house on Bay St. Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana...
...Danube basin where they increased and multiplied amazingly. But as they multiplied in their new environment, their coats deteriorated, becoming short and scrubby and unable to compete in the fur markets with the pelts of their sleek American cousins. Danube trappers gave up taking them. So they bred and littered more promiscuously than ever, and their multitudinous burrows honeycombing the Danube dikes-already left in disrepair by political upheavals- hastened the destruction of one of Europe's richest granaries in the torrential summer...
...Department of Agriculture has conducted experiments in zebra hybridization but the result was an untamable horselike animal. The achievement of Dr. Hastings was corroborated by Farm and Fireside, which states that each zebroid is worth $1000, and, when bred for market, can be produced at a lesser figure...