Word: hybridization
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...Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, quietly watching record crowds mill around the long tables of orchid exhibits. He watched the orchids, bright and delicate, crumple slowly after four days in the crowd's breath. Now & then he eyed particularly a spray of big plum-striped orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown...
...Human Hybrids-Howell S. England of Detroit told the unbelieving A. A. A. S. that, secreted in Russian Turkestan where people with sensibilities cannot interrupt them, Dr. Elie Ivanoff and two other Russian biologists are trying to cross humans and apes by artificially impregnating female chimpanzees. "At any time we may learn that he has produced the first hybrid," cried Howell S. England...
...individuals, urged Dr. D. F. Ramos of Havana. Each nation may decide what genetic factors it considers essential and examine immigrants for those factors. If an immigrant's child shows any bad characteristics, that child may be deported. If one of the child's parents is native born, the hybrid child has the just privilege of trying to prove that the bad inheritance originated locally, was not imported. In such case the child may continue to live where he was born. Weighty approver of Dr. Ramos' suggestion is the Pan-American Conference of Eugenics & Homiculture...
...Radcliffe. Now, the body she is attempting to represent is, though not great, diverse. Therefore at the very outset she is in a dilemma--to say or not to say. If she chooses the better course, she merely compounds various facts and theories into a sort of non-opinionative hybrid, which might be dubbed editorial-written-under-necessity-of-writing-an editorial. If such an article is read at all, it may be quickly forgotten. Another of the usual alternatives is to write a short editorial about some personal idea which she tries to modify so it will...
...crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights and power equal to those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white residents claim that they could hold the native in his place if it were not for tourists from the mainland...