Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become the people's choice. Before John Bates made his style-setting choice, the dogs judged best in every breed were pitted against one another in six semifinal contests...
...think I have ceased to breed!" announced Humorist Herbert, 47, father of four. "But no one is going to ask me about that. The questions which census agents are to ask from door to door under this Nosey Parker bill are an insult to the nation's women...
...best way to stimulate a British husband and wife to breed, Humorist Herbert gravely advised, is for His Majesty's Government to provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into...
...price. The reason was not merely the immense popularity of harness racing in Italy. Ringside gossip had it that Italian experiences in Ethiopia and Spain, plus the European oil crisis have made it highly necessary that Mussolini modify his motorization plans and pay more attention to improving the breed of his cavalry stock. Nobody has yet invented a truck that can use grass for fuel...
...With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes for them to slide down in their...