Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of the controversy it has aroused, "Fantasia" is worthy of reappraisal. While some critics have out shouted the Hollywood press agents in praising it, others have termed it a "bastard hybrid of art and music, the unfortunate result of mating Leopold Stokowski and Minnie Mouse...
...John Blow, next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the House dining-hall. To my mind the Society has done an impressive job during the past years in resurrecting the wonderful English operas--anyone who knows the beauty of these little operas will realize that it is only their peculiar hybrid form which has held them in relative obscurity. Somehow or other, grand opera as it grew up on the continent never clicked in England. Even after the Italian style of declamatory singing was assimilated in the seventeenth century, opera remained a blood brother of the masque from which...
...Remount does not have to worry about the breed of the hybrid mule ("no pride of ancestry, no hope of posterity"). It finds the usual breeds good enough, buys the best in sight...
Oliver is the only man who has successfully crossbred any of the 1,100 species of earthworms. For feeding chickens, frogs, etc., he produced a meaty hybrid ten inches long. Another hybrid, short and thick, yields a colorless, odorless, volatile oil useful in medicine. A medium-sized hybrid, very tough and vigorous, can be used to recolonize soils whose worm populations have been killed off by strong fertilizers or poison sprays. Oliver calls it his "soilution worm." In California and elsewhere there are several hundred farmers who have planted great batches of eggs, raised earthworm armies in their soil. Some...
...stature in various racial stocks, which has remained almost unchanged since post-paleolithic days, has suddenly begun remarkable developments in a number of directions. Dr. Seltzer advanced the theory that the Industrial Revolution, providing speedier transportation facilities, has been in part responsible for intermingling of stocks and a consequent "hybrid vigor...