Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Winthrop, Kirkland, and Eliot Houses, intramural football seems to be particularly unattractive this season. On the Freshman field yesterday, Coach McIntosh of Lowell House put his two-man team through a rigorous practice of bewildering reverses and smashes while Dunster, Adams, and Leverett amused themselves by playing a hybrid combination of touch football and basketball. Winthrop and Kirkland Houses alone were seriously practicing organized plays...
Month ago Wiley Post abandoned his famed Winnie Mae for a faster, low-wing Lockheed. It was a hybrid ship, with the wings of a cracked-up Sirius, the fuselage of a damaged Orion. He planned to fly it on a leisurely pleasure trip to Siberia, had it fitted with pontoons at Seattle. Funnynan Rogers joined him. at the last minute. Their plans were vague. It was to be a vacation trip by easy stages, possibly around the world, with Rogers paying the expenses and lots of stops for hunting and fishing...