Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more ways than one Spain's Franco resembles the South's Lee. The government of each sought foreign aid. Both men renounced the uniform of the army they had been bred to. When a new social order threatened, both decided to forego the new, stick to the old with their class and kind...
Most of the 60,000 racing fans who jammed historic old Churchill Downs last week for the 64th running of the Kentucky Derby looked down their rosy noses at a big, rugged colt from Missouri named Lawrin. In the first place, he was not bred in fashionable Kentucky or Maryland, like the nine other three-year-olds who were parading to the post for the mile-and-a-quarter race. What was more, he was a "winter horse" (one who campaigns at tracks that operate during the winter)- and only one winter horse had ever won the Derby...
...dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...
...instructive if somewhat unsightly object lesson in the laws of genetics has been provided in recent months by M. Etienne Letard of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France. M. Letard has bred a race of hairless cats. One or two hairless kittens appear from time to time in the litters of two perfectly normal Siamese parents...
...Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...