Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, where there are more people who do not know what to do with themselves than anywhere else in the U. S., is now the U. S. greyhound-racing capital. Two thousand dogs are quartered there every winter. Filling stations give out free tickets to the races. Improving the breed, ostensible purpose of the sport, costs visitors nearly half a million dollars every year in State taxes on their bets...
...nation-wide drive to improve the German breed, Nazi officials ordered last week millions of "pedigree books" for humans similar to the stud books kept by animal breeders...
According to official statistics last week the German breed has been improved since Adolf Hitler came to power by sterilizing a grand total of 180,000 tainted Germans...
...WHITE-HEADED EAGLE - Richard G. Montgomery - Macmillan ($3.50). Biography of the adventurer who became chief factor of Hudson's Bay Co. in the Columbia River country. He married a half-breed Indian woman, founded the trading post at Vancouver, and was a good uncle to the Indians...
...micro-organisms which cause malaria breed in the red blood cells of human beings and in the bellies of common anopheline mosquitoes. The male anopheline is a vegetarian. But the female loves human blood. When she bites someone who has malaria she drinks his infected blood. When later she bites a healthy individual she plunges some malaria germs into his flesh. The germs make straight for red blood cells, dig their way in and live off the contents. The strain of voiding dead blood cells, manufacturing new ones and trying to live on a deficient supply is what was killing...