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Word: breedings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Spratt Award | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Hubert claims to be a scientist yet we all know that no one has found or can find "half breed children" of apes, that native women associate on friendly terms with giant anthropoids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...newspapers [Hearst] which is now devoting itself to the defeat of the Treaty. . . . The irresponsible misrepresentation, the spirit of international suspicion and ill-will, which thus far has marked the editorials of this group would be poured into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Tussles | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

German Shepherd fanciers are annoyed when the breed is referred to as "police dogs." "P. D." is a degree conferred on Shepherds only after they have passed a field test of 24 exercises, including food offered by strangers, capture of a person pretending to be a criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Drawing Room Dogs | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...four breeds of dog currently regarded by U. S. dealers as "most fashionable" are all terriers: Scottish, Cairn, Sealyham, wire-haired fox. Most of the best-bred Scotties in the U. S. last fortnight foregathered on a terrace of Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Button's Long Island estate and permitted Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime president of the University of Michigan, now managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Drawing Room Dogs | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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