Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancer appears in any of the hybrid females " said Dr. Little, "Miss Slye's theory is incorrect, and the type of inheritance is not simply Mendelian, nor is cancer recessive. The test should take from two to three years, but is so direct and simple, involving only elementary principles of Mendelian inheritance and no permanent removal of any of Miss Slye's animals from her laboratory, that I cannot see why it should not be supported and begun at once. If Miss Slye's theory is correct, its importance as a practical matter to the human race...
...years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half-fiction, slightly radical, a little scandalous by pre-War standards, not quite a sentimental story, somewhat highbrow, almost good...
...bill cavalierly passed by the House on April 29, not the bill passed after more careful examination by the Senate on June 5. It was a brand-new tax bill, concocted in conference, a cross between the House and Senate bills. Day after its birth the hybrid bill was rushed to the House floor. No copies of the conference report had been printed. All that Representatives knew of it was what oral explanations their leaders gave. So weary were they, however, that they laughed, applauded, made speeches showing that they really did not know what they were voting on, then...
...Coward breaks his brittle cracks on the skulls of his foils in the approved Cowardly manner, for the major part of the picture. Then, most touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special commendation going to the manner in which Weber...
...Among the more promising collections obtained by Dr. Anderson are a Boanian holly, the hybrid Fraxinus from the Danube delta, alpine forms of the common lilac...