Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have led the Democratic Party in both houses of Congress for years. I am a Southern man, bred and born. We are approaching the time when the Democratic Party must name the man to carry its banner in the next election. It has been 80 years since the South elected a President of the United States...
...here to found what he claims will be "the only modern Art school in the world," because America, young, unspoiled and the only great country not gravely crippled by the War, is the place to look for the great Art of the future. He is a Ukrainian, born and bred in Kiev. In Berlin he recently closed a school to which flocked students from all over the world. At Prague he did a bust of Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia. His bust of his wife (a native of Berlin), who accompanies him to America, is in the Leipzig Museum...
...sophisticated. But have you the old eager reverence for the great books? And where, by the way, are your own books? From these thousands of American colleges and universities, how many 'vital, creative books are born? The university of Walden Pond had "Whim" written above its doorposts, but it bred literature. There was once a type of productive scholar who may be described as "he that scattereth, and yet increaseth", but your amazing and multifarious activity is not much of it wastage rather than growth? Simplify! Coordinate! Find yourselves, and then lift up your hearts...
...yard a few years hence, if experiments by Dr. F. A. E. Crew, director of the biological research laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, reported at the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Sept. 24) fulfill his expectations. Dr. Crew took a pure-bred buff Orpington hen which had already laid eggs, and by an artificial glandular process little understood, changed its sex. At least, the comb, wattles and spurs grew, the bird crowed instead of cackled, paid attention to other hens, and, when mated with a hen of his own breed, became...
...Distemper Is a disease which practically all dogs contract at some period of their lives, usually when young. It is highly contagious to other dogs, and high-bred canines are more susceptible to it than mongrels. The cause is a subject of dispute among veterinarians. The disease is fatal to about 30% of the cases where esanthematous (characterized by a skin eruption) and catarrhal symptoms occur, and to about 90% of the cases in which there are nervous symptoms present...