Word: breds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days they nominated their presidential candidate. Although he had said he would not run again, it turned out to be Princeton-bred ('05), aging Norman Thomas, who had already carried the Socialist banner in five straight presidential elections. They picked Tucker P. Smith, an economics professor from Olivet, Mich., to run for Vice President. Then they went back home to hope and argue and wait for the recalcitrant world to come to its senses...
Shocked Mothers. The rat mothers that worked for Dr. Calvin P. Stone of Stanford did not have so pleasant a time. He gave electroconvulsive shocks to recently bred females. Some produced young, but did not know what to do next. The shake-up apparently destroyed their instinctive knowledge of how to build nests or suckle their infants. They "exhibited no maternal behavior," and acted as if the whole thing had been a dream...
...Barn-Bred Shaver. The new machine is the invention of scholarly, stocky James H. Rand III, 35, son of the president of Remington Rand Inc. (typewriters, adding machines, etc.). Young Rand turned down an offer to work for his father, preferring to dabble in medical research. He studied at the University of Virginia, Vienna University and the University of Berlin (he never got a degree), before he set up a laboratory in a barn behind his Westport (Conn.) home...
Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...
...overcivilized modern orchards the trick does not always work. Many high-bred apple trees, for instance, have flowers that refuse to be fertilized by pollen of their own variety. They demand pollen from other varieties, which the local bees seldom supply...