Word: hybridize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then came an unexpected reward for good work quickly done. Strolling contentedly among his third-generation hybrids, Mr. Burpee was astounded to spy a golden super-double hybrid nasturtium with nearly 60 petals and three inches across. This was the result of a chance mutation, an obscure dislocation of the hereditary mechanism of the sort that many a geneticist holds responsible for evolution. "The nasturtium was most carefully watched," said Grower Burpee, "in every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never...
...eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named...
...Virginia's Maxwell, dissenting in Bell v. Gas Company, decided July 25, 1935, and reported in 181 S.E. 609, should be included in your anthology on "and/or." "The involvements of the contract are accentuated by the frequent use of the baffling symbol 'and/or'-a disingenuous modernistic hybrid, inept and irritating." GEORGE RICHARDSON...
...reading a paper was Arthur Holly Compton. Newshawks esteem this topflight physicist and Nobel Prizewinner of the University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms, or lines of equal cosmic ray intensity on the world map. He showed on a chart how isocosms closely follow the lines of equal geomagnetic intensity. He left a definite impression that isocosms were not to be argued with...
...Mansion, a handsome hybrid on the northeastern fringe of the capital, was something of a comedown from the magnificent $1,000,000 Marland estate at Ponca City. To make matters worse, before the Marlands moved in, retiring Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray had had all the grounds ploughed...