Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...information about her, but because of a superabundance of contradictory evidence. Centre of controversy all her life, subject of inquiries and investigations, her reputation was darkened and defended by contemporary partisans who did not hesitate to employ torture and forgery to establish her guilt or innocence. To the confusions bred by religious antagonisms, Scottish and English national rivalries added more contradictions, until the personality of Mary Stuart was obscured, even in her own day, in a haze of moral, religious and political disputes...
...surprisingly touching story of a farm boy (Henry Fonda), working as a boater because he wants money to buy land, and a girl (Janet Gaynor) who finds it difficult though not impossible to love a man who does not worship the canal where she has been born & bred...
...office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores which bred resourcefulness in an earlier generation...
...before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography of Thompson, succeeds in showing how the abrupt widening of Western financial and intellectual horizons created confusions unlimited, bred political and moral dilemmas that robbed Thompson's triumph of all personal satisfaction...
...scholarships to be used within the following eight years. It is the Farm School's proud boast that even during Depression it has paid at least 70% of all expenses out of the proceeds of its farm. Dr. House's son Charles, who was born & bred in the Balkans, went to Princeton (Class of 1909) and speaks seven languages, is today the active director of the school. Cholera wiped $1,500 worth of prize hogs from the school's books in 1932. But Dr. House is proud of the fact that his school was the first...