Word: hybridize
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...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...
...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...
...name, classicists holding out for the pure Greek Phee Bayta Kahppa, the 0 B K Senate insisting on the completely Anglicized Phy Beeta Kappa. To the disgust of purists on both sides of the fence, the National Council seems to be on the verge of authorizing the common hybrid Phy Bayta Kappa...
...various political labels. Now, however, there is cause for revived hope and aggressiveness of democrats everywhere. Mosley does not flourish in Britain, Huey Long is dead, and France junks its politico-military menaces. In those countries where democracy has struck its roots down deep over the course of centuries, hybrid foreign importations of the Stalin or Hitler variety wither in an unfavorable clime...
...hybrid corporation is Allis-Chalmers, battling G. E. and Westinghouse on the one hand, International Harvester and Deere on the other. But its products are not so unrelated as they may appear. It takes power to drive the saws in a sawmill and the rollers in a flourmill and from making machinery to making the machinery to power that machinery was a natural Allis-Chalmers step. Good Allis-Chalmers' customers are the Navy...