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Word: breedings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This does not mean, of course, that everybody will pass. In every class there are a certain percentage of gentlemen who prefer to loaf, or let other people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AND NOVEMBER HOUR EXAMS | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

Last episode relates how Jody got his second pony. In return for Jody's putting in a summer's hard work, Farmer Tiflin lays out $5 to breed their own mare Nellie. Jody dedicates himself completely to Nellie's prenatal care, to giving his father more than his five-dollar's worth. When complications develop at the delivery, the hired hand kills Nellie with a hammer, and in a gory Cesarean delivers Jody his promised colt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steinbeck Inflation | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

This week B. Hamilton Rogers, vice president of an organization called Dogs Inc., arrived in the U. S. with two barkless, but playful Basenji puppies. He in tends to show them and breed them, hopes to introduce the Basenji to recognized aristocracy of pedigreed dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bush Things | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Promote no company unions, for they breed sitdown strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Employers | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

ELEANOR D. BREED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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