Word: hybridize
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...having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there can be no compromise between debating and conference argumentation. A hybrid will but bring discredit to both arts. --Cornell Daily...
Twenty-three years ago a young Norfolk lawyer received a letter from a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission : "I have carefully considered your application for a charter for your hybrid and mongrel banking institution. Frankly, I don't know what it is. It isn't a savings bank; it isn't a state or national bank; it isn't a charity. It isn't anything I ever heard of before. Its principles seem sound, however, and its purposes admirable. But the reason that I am going to grant a charter is because I believe...
Other people believed in Arthur Joseph Morris and the "hybrid and mongrel" notion of banking became the Morris Plan banks in 150 U. S. cities. Founded on a desire to provide the laboring man with a better source of credit than the fleecing loan shark, the Morris Plan is today dignified by the name "industrial banking." Morris Plan Banks ("companies" in some states where only an orthodox bank may use the word) make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some...
...instruction in sex hygiene are fairly obvious. Lastly, the examination in the course, which has become a joke should be abolished. Were all this done, each of the two purposes for which Hygiene is now intended would be attained, instead of hampering each other as in the present hybrid state of the course...
Nevertheless, any hybrid union of national and local powers would be definitely a retrogression from the present setup. Education must be entirely national or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial security with doubled political control and meddling. Under the proposed evolution Mr. Roosevelt must go the "whole hog" or the Chicago teacheres will be pacified to the definite detriment of the secondary school system...