Word: hybridization
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...demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
...years ago, zoologists imported American bison cows, bred them with aurochs bulls. The hybrid offspring are to be bred in turn with full-blood aurochs, giving three-quarter blood animals. Through successive generations the temporary American bison strain could be practically bred out, its virility merely tiding over the true Europeans. Like American bison, the aurochs has long legs, massive shoulders covered in winter with shaggy dark-brown hair, convex forehead. Both species make fine rugs, steaks...
...McKee, financed by Oxford Paper Co., has worked for four years on new hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn...
Competitions such as that announced in today's CRIMSON are the soil for the seeds from which grow that hybrid individual known as the Big Man. Every year there is a group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part...
...common with many others who feel that Princeton and her traditions are quite good enough for the average American citizen, and who resent the patronizing airs which these hybrid academics give themselves. I desire to protest against the absurd reverence which seems to be accorded to a man who has spent two or three years mooning among the dons and returns graciously to accept the offer of an instructorship at his alma mater for the purpose of impressing her loutish sons with his own esotericism and converting them from their boorishness...