Word: hybridization
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President Osborn, however, delayed presenting his theory, to challenge President Merriam. Said he: "In pure races, such as the Swedes, evolution is undoubtedly going on at the regular rate. But we are a hybrid race. ... I think it is very doubtful that under present conditions of civilization large, mixed communities such as ours are evolving. . . . Hybrid animals cease to evolve. . . . Members of the mouse family ceased evolving at least 1.000,000 years...
...Larry, for his friends the moonshiner and the sheriff and even the hardshell preacher, a drop of Negro blood, no matter how diluted, makes a person a Negro. Vainly the patrician doctor explains that Ruth's father and grandfather were considered -white, that Ruth never knew she was a hybrid, a "brass ankle." But good-natured, inarticulate Larry has nothing to depend on but the cruelty of his neighbors...
Without a strong, organized opposition the group in power has nothing to compel it to give the maximum of public service. The new progressive movement may not succeed in ousting the Republican-Democratic hybrid from power. But if it merely provides a threatening opposition, it will be of immense service to the nation...
...finally in objection to the Post's feelings about "highbrow" music, we are willing to admit that the programs of the Glee Clubs which we occasionally hear may be of the hybrid nature, calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of purely "college music" as well as that of the listener more interested in tone and technique. If, however, it were to be the sentiment that such hybrid programs should be removed, we would be far more in favor of breeding a pure strain of "highbrow music" than of fostering the tunes which we ourselves may shout...
Senator Borah last week did just the sort of thing that makes his critics call him a trimmer, and the Insurgents despair of him as a member of their group: Before the Senate were the Tariff Commission nominations. Senator Borah arose to say: "What kind of hybrid monstrosity are we creating by constituting these special commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard...