Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
...Victor Sassoon, owner of Shanghai's ill-fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor...
...firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned...
...dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening at the Punch-&-Judy show, throwing hoops round the necks of swans. Ordered next night to a command performance of the opera, he sees his dreamgirl...
When Zoologist Powell, who teaches in the University of Nebraska, realized that lobelessness was being bred out of his family, he started an investigation. He found that one of Mrs. Powell's brothers married a lobeless woman. All their children had lobes. Zoologist Powell's lobeless brother also married a lobeless woman. Their children had no ear lobes. Therefore, he reasoned, free ear lobes are dominant characters, adherent lobes are recessive, intermarriage eliminates lobeless ears...