Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost before the roof was on, it was a butt of criticism, a begetter of jokes and a breeder of legend. There was the story of the Western Union messenger who went in on a Monday morning, got caught in the red tape, and walked out on Friday a full colonel. There was the man who sat down at an empty desk to rest his feet and forthwith found himself with a phone, blotter, desk set and secretary. And then there was the acutely pregnant woman who accosted a guard and urgently demanded the way out. "Lady, you shouldn...
...especially, he found that the rains fell in a strongly marked seven-day cycle. Variations in barometric pressure, humidity, temperature, etc., followed the same weekly schedule. Langmuir does not maintain that his silver iodide went all the way to Ohio. But he thinks that New Mexico is a "weather breeder" where weather developments begin and sweep off toward the east. In the past, these weather changes came at irregular intervals. During 1950 they were triggered once a week by silver iodide and so, says Langmuir, brought weekly rain to faraway Ohio...
Great Circle, relatively lightly regarded inthe odds (9-1), set a new record for the Maturity: 2 :00 2/5. He earned a purse $144,325 for his owner, $14,000 for his breeder, Louis B. Mayer, and another $14,000 for Willie Shoemaker-all three record figures. Second and third money ($20,000 and $15,000) went to T. G Benson's Lotowhite and Alfred Vanderbilt's Bed o' Roses...
...Light Matter. Rightly or wrongly, for 55 years the London School of Economics has had a reputation for just the opposite-a hotbed of socialism, Tories called it, a breeder of radicals. It began one day in 1894, when Fabian Socialist Sidney Webb received an unexpected legacy of ?10,000 from a fellow Fabian who had just blown his brains out. After mulling over the matter with his wife Beatrice, Sidney decided to start a new school where socialist theory would stand on an equal footing with more conventional viewpoints. "Above all," explained Beatrice Webb to her diary, "we want...
...bettors had overlooked a couple of points on the performance charts. At the classic distance of 1½ miles, the Belmont Stakes is a "breeder's race" where stamina and breeding* tell. And Belmont's fast, sun-baked track was made to order for Middleground's tastes. Said one jockey: "When he can hear his feet rattle he's a running...