Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of a college "daily" is to acquire not only this, but also (possibly) a certain amount of monetary assistance; but to be the editor of a mere "Lit" is to obtain neither. Moreover (Mr. Bailey feels) to be an editor of a mere "Lit" is, ipso facto, to inherit a thankless task. He suggests that nobody wants such a magazine; that in its pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things, it must try to compromise. It must not too zealously devote itself to "aesthetic outpourings", because "it is admittedly difficult...
...Beside Mr. Lowden at the game, with fur-lined overcoat and grey fedora to match Mr. Lowden's, sat his guest and good friend, Vice President Dawes. Gossip has said that Vice President Dawes, who has been encouraging the Lowden boom, would inherit the Lowden delegates when the Lowden boom collapses. Gossip has even said that the friends have an understanding to this effect. But Vice President Dawes has roundly denied that eh would utilize his friend as a stalking horse...
Drinkers' Sons. Ten generations of rats were daily intoxicated with alcohol fumes. The eleventh generation was put in a cage with descendants of nonalcoholic rats. The two strains got drunk at the same rate. Conclusion: a drinker's sons cannot inherit from him a steady head for drinking; acquired characteristics are not demonstrably inheritable.?Frank Blair Hanson and Florence. Hays, Washington University, St. Louis...
...They fairly dote on the young man. One would think it was they who were marrying Tommy, and before they are through they are almost left to do it. Marie, or Peg Entwistle, is the harrassed young lady, who almost tosses over her true love, who will some day inherit the town bank, for an automobile salesman, and a roadster existence...
Then, though it is, hardly right, we will skip a few generations, stopping with that famous Forecast from whom I inherit my athletic ability. It was at the time during the Revolution when the British were besieged in Boston, and the Minute Men improved their idle moments in Cambridge by playing football among themselves at Soldiers Field. But Gamaliel Forecast was too fast for the Minute Men. He played on the Second Team...