Word: hybridize
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...members of the U.S. political Left were impressed by the gleaming pink façade of Henry Wallace's hybrid Progressive Citizens of America (TIME, Jan. 6). In Washington last week 150-odd intellectuals, labor leaders and New Deal disciples got together to form a new organization of their own. They had been called together by the Union for Democratic Action, a militant pressure group of ardent "liberals...
...This new hybrid, which attempts to solve a alongfelt need for a breaking donw of the meaningless barriers which separate the various fields of psychological and socio-cultural science, was produced by combining with the old Sociology Department a sizable part of the Department of Psychology and some courses in Cultrual Anthropology, chiefly those of a physiological nature, were bound up into a smaller department, and shunted over to the natural science area where they belonged...
Corn-Hog Program. Henry Wallace once told him that an acre of Iowa hybrid corn yielded far more than ordinary corn, and Nelson Rockefeller never forgot. This week he was to sign his first commercial contract with Brazil's only hybrid producer, Agroceres Limited of São Paulo. It would call for a minority investment of $200,000, and seed loans to the company, which would sell hybrid seed corn to farmers, and to other companies that wished to start production...
...Japs were counting on three new hybrid super-worms, all developed this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last week, Long Security produced 500-600 eggs. Her partner's ardor was then cooled by a night in a refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground...
Thimann, who is one of the country's leading authorities on plant growth, is currently working with hybrid rubber trees in an effort to determine the best manner by which they can be propagated in sufficient numbers for commercial...