Word: breds
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...Harvard experience has bred an uncommon sense of the importance of sports in our lives. Athletics are not "big-time" in the sense they are at USC or Notre Dame or Alabama, yet Harvard still produces teams of national caliber (hockey, Harvard and Radcliffe crew, swimming, squash, baseball, sailing and soccer, to name a few) and has walked away with its share of national championships. You can approach them from either...
...Duke Law School, where he earned the nickname "Gloomy Gus" for his cautious, pessimistic, Depression-bred outlook, Nixon finished third in his class. Unable to land work with a major New York law firm (he also tried the FBI), he returned to practice in Whittier, where he met Thelma Catherine ("Pat") Ryan, who taught shorthand and typing at the local high school. They were married after a two-year courtship and set up housekeeping in an apartment over a garage...
Perhaps no living painter has ever been thrust into such notoriety by a novel as Moreau was by the publication of J.K. Huysmans' manifesto of decadence, A Rebours, in 1884. Moreau was then 58, a Parisian born and bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...
...only St. Bernards that suffer the evils of inbreeding. Some German shepherds have hip dysplasia (a flattening of the joint), attributed to selective mating of dogs whose congenital hip dysfunction gives them a long, graceful sloping line, but makes walking progressively more difficult. Chihuahuas, bred for large, domelike skulls, are often born hydrocephalic, become snappy and irritable as excess fluid presses on the brain. Neurophysiologist Richard Redding of Alabama's Auburn University has performed lobotomies on 15 schizoid cocker spaniels whose unpredictable behavior oscillated between cuddly and violent...
...Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg at 21 and a New York University law degree...