Word: hybridizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestion: Russians should eat more popcorn-called "air corn" by the Soviets. "The Americans love it. Children and adults enjoy it. They sell small packages in theaters, railroad stations and airports." Soviet families would love it also, said the newspaper, which helpfully gave detailed instructions on how to grow hybrid corn for popping...
...serious music. Its repertory is top-heavy with German works (Beethoven is played nearly twice as much as Tchaikovsky, the most popular non-Germanic composer), and it has no hampering patriotic duties to the national culture: it plays very little music writ ten in its own land. But its hybrid birth and its international spirit spare it the national mannerisms that mark most European orchestras, and it plays with a freshness and flexibility that make each orchestra unique...
...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...
What about historians, anthropologists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and economists? Social scientists combine intuition, reason, and appeal to fact into an epistemological hybrid that frequently puts them in the doghouse of both scientists and humanists. They have emerged only recently from philosophy or the study of history, and the studies by Holland and Roe show that, psychologically, they, like the humanists, differ in some respects from scientists. The relations between the social sciences and the natural sciences really deserve a complete treatment. Rather than make an abortive attempt here, we leave the issue aside...
...lowbrow features and a superficial approach to the news. But the company has invested $1,000,000 in new mechanical equipment, added some 20 reporters to the staff and expanded its business coverage. Last week Hearst headquarters announced that after the turn of the year its Los Angeles hybrid will get a new editor to replace Herbert H. Krauch, 66, a Hearst veteran of 50 years. Krauch's replacement will be John Denson, 59, who recently quit as editor of the New York Herald Tribune after a showdown argument over editorial authority...