Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found...
...becomes about as important, at least to England's more avid ornithologists, as a movie organist's spot between features. England's lay bird lovers are almost as deeply stirred; the whole village of Lipsbury Lea is determined that the pipits shall hatch their brood in peace...
Youngest of the College's extra-curricular brood, the Students Association for Natural and Social Sciences will gather for the first time Thursday night in the Leverett House Junior Common Room to hear Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...best, Wright has paid as high as $40,000 for a prize brood mare, once laid down $62,500 for a one-fourth interest in the imported stallion Blenheim II (Whirlaway's daddy). But a basic ingredient in the Wright recipe is his trainers, the Jones boys-old Ben and young Jimmy. Rival trainers sometimes suspect the Joneses of getting results by mirrors and magic. But they are willing to pass their secret on to anybody. Says Jimmy: "You figure not only on a horse's speed, stamina and breeding, but on his personality-they're like...
...largest percentage of U.S. geniuses was born in Massachusetts, in January (poorest genius-producing month: June), and inherited their talents equally from their fathers & mothers. The average genius sprang from a large brood (7.51 children) and from mature parents: father was 34.8 when the genius was born, mother...