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...Little's love of dogs is a projection from his healthy boyhood in and around Boston; his fondness for Scotch terriers in particular is an inheritance from his father, James Lovell Little, earliest breeder of the type in the U. S. Mice helped him get his doctor of science degree at Harvard, where he studied biology and genetics. While he was busy at administrative duties at the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, he kept mice (1,000 of them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their...
...controlled indeed, his own racetrack (at Memphis). But none of Mr. Billings' horses ever raced for money and at his racetrack there was no betting. For (said he) it was un fair for the wealthy sportsman, to whom money was no object, to race his horses against the average breeder who had his living to make in the racing business. Thus, though he spent millions on trotting horses, from them Mr. Billings never realized, nor tried to realize, a penny of profit...
...Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid? Why not speak up for a shore reservation from Wood Island through the Fourth Section to Orient Heights, so badly needed for the welfare of 20,000 children living here? And all the play-grounds of the district need a voice for their necessities...
...were purblind, whose wings had never sufficed to raise them over the hen hutch fence? Some of them came from Guilford, Conn. These were Reptilians, low birds reported immune to disease who seemed to glide rather than walk, an almost extinct breed whose 40 remaining members are owned by Breeder Paul P. Ives. Others, George Lowry's ten white leghorns who last year laid 3,014 eggs, came from West Willington, Conn...
...most typewriter mistakes are unlucky. They keep you after hours. Annoy your employers. Even threaten the securest position, when long continued. Noise . . . the rackety chatter of many typewriters is the treacherous breeder of mistakes...