Word: breeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
...error in such vital matters. We can "compromise" within the boundaries of a principle. We can no longer compromise principles themselves. That becomes "appeasement," and appeasement only multiplies the hazard from which it seeks escape. History leaves no room for doubt upon that score. The wrong answers will breed wars for tomorrow...
...Received from New York's Fordham University an honorary LL.D. (his fifth) with a speech stressing the significance of veterans' education: "Ignorance and its handmaidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion . . . breed dictators [and] wars. . . . We must look to education ... to wipe out that ignorance which threatens catastrophe...
This is no latter-day Swift describing a happy breed of his imagination. It is a young Canadian writing of his little-known Eskimo neighbors in the Far North. Husky, handsome Bruce D. Campbell spent four years there as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Co. Three years later, his R.C.A.F. bomber was shot down over Germany, and he became a prisoner of war. To pass the time, he wrote this book about the wonderful white world of the 6.000 North American Eskimos (world Eskimo population...
...Malthusian justice in the millions of famine deaths checking excessive growth of population. It is true that Indians are multiplying too fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...