Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to it either. Wrote Lord Layton, chairman of London's Liberal News Chronicle, while head of the industry's newsprint rationing committee: "With international responsibilities second to none, our newspapers are among the smallest in the world. . . . You cannot build . . . a peaceful world on ignorance or breed world citizens if they have no access to knowledge...
...actress thus bracketed last week was Celia Johnson, star of such British films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...
Four Flyways. One of the warmest Indian summers in Canada's history had kept the ducks at the sloughs and potholes of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they breed and spend the summer. It takes a freeze to chase them south. Last week, a few weeks behind schedule, the mallards, redheads and green-winged teal began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take...
...Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their...