Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers but the same father are "by the same sire." Example: Twenty Grand and Bold Venture. Because a brood mare is bred once a year, and a stallion many times, the thoroughbred strain is considered to be, by most thoughtful breeders, a matriarchy. Another popular misconception regarding the thoroughbred horse is that all thoroughbred horses are race horses. Today thoroughbred blood is being used everywhere by private and commercial breeders, including...
This annoyed Mrs. Dibble. So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters. Mrs. Dibble discussed this with Trainer Walsh at her 18th-Century man sion near Newburyport, Mass., at her stables in Lenox, Mass., in Lexington and Harrodsburg, Ky. Together they recalled that in 1910 Tobacco Tycoon Paul Sorg had made a record trip in coach-&-four from Manhattan to Atlantic City in 12 hours, 18 minutes. He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run. To beat this...
With "the almost incredible circulation of books in the Soviet Union . . . before us as a glorious example," smart Publisher Victor Gollancz set out in London last week to assuage the appetites of literate Leftists regularly and at small cost. Launched with Mr. Gollancz' customary well-bred ballyhoo was the Left Book Club. To join, readers had only to pledge that they would buy once a month a cheap special edition of a radical or near-radical book which Victor Gollancz, Ltd. would send them. As usual, Victor Gollancz' competitors bit their quills, wished to blazes they had thought...
...second important event of London's social season took place last week with the annual Royal Academy exhibition in Burlington House.* The elderly, well-bred gentlemen who pick the pictures showed in the 1,600 they had chosen that modernists' angry scorn for Royal Academy exhibitions had left them utterly unimpressed...
...Seeing Eye," Mrs. Eustis told the Institute last week, grew out of a breeding station for German shepherd dogs which she established in 1923 at Fortunate Fields, her comfortable estate near Vevey, Switzerland. At first, as a hobby, Mrs. Eustis and her friend,, Geneticist Elliott S. Humphrey, bred and trained dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand...