Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long newspaper accounts of President Coolidge's award in the Tacna-Arica dispute neglected to mention the most interesting aspect of the whole matter. They failed to point out the economic background of the struggle. Two thirds of a century ago the desert provinces which later bred war and whose present place as a storm center of controversy was emphasized by the award, were regarded as worthless, and the boundary lines of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in that territory were but roughly defined. Then the spread of scientific farming methods, and the inadequacy of the South American guano deposits...
...stands for pep, punch and prosperity in Hollisburg, Hollis County, Ind. He has all the best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen...
...Harvard sports squash is perhaps the most representative. Success in it reflects the enthusiasm, which it has engendered throughout the University, an enthusiasm, bred of widespread participation in the sport. A championship team is, therefore, no accident...
...college scientists like John Burroughs and Luther Burbank may outweigh how many scientific students of lesser rank? Mark Twain and Walt Whitman should count for something more than their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history of the race by the sons of carpenters, camel-drivers and ne'er-do-well pioneers. New York Times...
...Immorality is being bred in Greater Boston by college professors", says the Cambridge edition of that well known paper, the Boston American, in reporting the sermon of the Reverend James P. Kelly, pastor of St. John's Catholic Church...