Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the left is progression, all resistance from the right is reactionary. . . ." Grimly he warned: "The idea of keeping scores of millions of people hanging about in subhuman state between earth and hell until they are worn down to slave conditions and accept Communism or die off will only breed moral pestilence and probably...
Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
...years of experiment, the Dominion Experimental Farm had gone far toward establishing the fact that Canadian cattle could be successfully buffaloed. Browsing in a special enclosure in the Wainwright Buffalo Park were 75 precious, sturdy calves born this spring. They were true cattalo, not hybrids but a distinctive breed. The experts were finally sure that they had taken the cattalo out of the mule's biological dead...
...error in such vital matters. We can "compromise" within the boundaries of a principle. We can no longer compromise principles themselves. That becomes "appeasement," and appeasement only multiplies the hazard from which it seeks escape. History leaves no room for doubt upon that score. The wrong answers will breed wars for tomorrow...
This is no latter-day Swift describing a happy breed of his imagination. It is a young Canadian writing of his little-known Eskimo neighbors in the Far North. Husky, handsome Bruce D. Campbell spent four years there as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Co. Three years later, his R.C.A.F. bomber was shot down over Germany, and he became a prisoner of war. To pass the time, he wrote this book about the wonderful white world of the 6.000 North American Eskimos (world Eskimo population...