Word: hybridize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...seekers after monetary stability, this sequence of events may at first seem calamitous. It is true, nevertheless, that general inflation would be a more satisfactory basis for international negotiation than the present hybrid status. Thus although devaluation of the franc may cause temporary panic in France, it need not be disastrous in its ultimate consequences. On the contrary, if it should make possible an adjustment of the existing economic warfare, it would be of tremendous value to the world in general and therefore to France itself...
...H.A.A., judging from the attendance at the game today, is wrong in the assumption that a larger number will attend if the game is held at the hybrid hour, of 5 o'clock. The meagre attendance composed largely of the schoolboys who were guests, indicates more poignantly than words that undergraduates will not go to games that interfere with supper, with afternoon activities, and with evening's plans...
When Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer went through Dr. Merrill Moore's filing cabinet, he counted approximately 25,000 idiomatic, hybrid or "American" sonnets. Some were bad, some good; some had been printed in Walter Winchell's column, some had appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, some in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine oj Verse. To conceive of the tremendous industry that could turn out 25,000 sonnets, says Mr. Untermeyer, "one must think of the author as a pundit, an immured octogenarian, devoting all his hours to the fashioning and perfecting of his flexible models...
Despite the increasing popularity of the Department of History and Literature, it remains in essence a committee for granting degrees. There are no courses in the combined field and neither of its two professors give instruction which unites the history and literature of a specific age. It is a hybrid which draws its sustenance from two different sources...