Word: breds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...level-and in his own Missouri stamping grounds-he had proved that he could still figure out where the power lay. His personally picked candidate for Congress in Missouri's Fifth District, a political novice named Enos Axtell, scored a decisive victory in the Democratic primary over Princeton-bred Representative Roger Slaughter, who had hacked away mercilessly at the Truman program in Congress...
...epidemic until the 19th Century. The tiny virus that causes it (one of the smallest known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient...
...They bred large masses of disease germs, learned how to make them as virulent as possible and keep them so. They tested each strain for hardiness and longevity. They determined the exact number needed to start an infection and studied "all possible means of dissemination and routes of entrance into the susceptible individual...
That was the clincher. No one could deny any longer that Assault, the Texas-bred chestnut with a clubfoot, had what it takes. His 1946 earnings of $339,720 were an alltime high for a one-year campaign. Victory in the Arlington (Ill.) Classic would make him the third biggest money winner in turf history...
...first turn, a 6½-to -1 hopeful with a good record, The Dude, took the lead never to be headed. A pint-sized chestnut colt bred by Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, he had been picked up in $4,000 claiming race last year. It took The Dude just 2 min. 2.6 sec. to win the Classic purse of $76,850 for his owner, Mrs. Al Gaal of New Orleans...