Word: hybridize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...