Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...years ago Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes Yale psychobiologist, set two male and two female chimpanzees up in housekeeping behind a high brick Yale fence. Assiduously Professor Yerkes watched the two couples grow up, learn the facts of life, breed, raise families. When Yale received money for an Institute of Human Relations building, the Yale chimpanzees got a penthouse because bossing and watching them was the nearest Professor Yerkes could get to what U. S. culture forbade him-bossing and watching a caged collection of men, women & children...
Manager Johnson's prospectus included no new U. S. opera. But the memory of Merry Mount and In the Pasha's Garden was still too painful to breed many regrets. In no instance did the list of 36 operas extend beyond the conventional repertoire, with Verdi, Wagner and Puccini predominating changes have been in the personnel. The orchestra has been reorganized, with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years...
...Cambridge; David H. Aronson '36, of Brookline; William J. Baker '36, of Cambridge; Laurence L. Barber, Jr. '37, of Arington; John B. Barney '37, of Bridgewater; Edward L. Bassett '36, of Marblehead; Frank A. Bautze '36, of Boston; Robert L. Bentley, 2d. '36, of Arlington; Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, of Swampscott; John Briggs, 3d. '38, of Cambridge; John H. Burns '37, of Andover; Stanley J. Boguniecki '36, of Westfield...
...could better call the father a bastard for the dictionary defines: "Bastard, n. a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an animal of low breed...