Word: hybridization
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Nylon can be eked out by mixing it with silk and rayon, making feet and tops of other yarns. But women may not like these hybrid stockings. And the Army may soon commandeer nylon...
Wishing Senators a Happy Easter and an ever-normal granary, Hybrid-Seed Grower Henry Wallace presented each of them with a nice box of sweet-corn seed-for planting April...
...Hybrid mixtures of natives and whites in Australia were a principal object of study by the expedition...
...second city. After miles of rocks and dust elaborated only by anthills and scrub, after more miles of hills ugly with boulders and cactus, Harar is a welcome sight. It is an ancient city state, founded by Arabs From across the Red Sea, rich in a peculiar hybrid culture expressed at one extreme by thatched roofs decorated at their pinnacles with bright enameled chamber pots, at the opposite extreme by minarets of the rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled by a ruinous wall, but it has its two-story hotels with shower baths and roaches...
...henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent. "They build for themselves a barricaded American life wherever they are. They insulate themselves as thoroughly as possible against the life of the country they are in. They are rich...