Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about the mechanism of mutations (sudden, conspicuous changes in plants and animals which subsequently breed true because of changes in the germ plasm). With the discovery of mutations some biologists decided that nothing else was necessary for evolution...
...commodity of which the U. S. has never had an adequate supply. Most costly evidence of the fact is the $1,175,000,000 of defaulted bonds outstanding which foreigners (Germany: 26.4%) owe U. S. investors. This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht...
Thus is created a "new breed of men," risking death not for businessmen's mailbags but for "the dignity of the craft," a new human fraternity born of shared loneliness, dangers, purpose. Some of the breed...
Author Saint Exupéry's "new breed" of airmen begins to look like an international fraternity. He does not try to account for the local chapters of bombing pilots...
English youngsters still burst their Eton jackets giggling at Lear's Book of Nonsense. The U. S. breed find Lear's nonsense nonsensical. But Lear is essentially grownups' Mother Goose. Limericks like the Young Girl of Majorca still wow big-wigged British judges...