Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final problem: Was this gene a "dominant" or a "recessive?" To find out, Dr. Hall mated brown mice with black mice. When their hybrid offspring were tried in the tub, nearly all died in convulsions at the sound of the fatal bell. This proved (according to Mendel's law of heredity) that the jittery gene was dominant. A recessive gene would not have expressed itself until the next generation...
...hybrid department with only one course offered in the field, the study of bio-chemical sciences bolds out for prospective concentrators a good chance to gain an all around schooling in the biological and physical science without the necessity of delving too deeply into any one specific area...
...Calligraphy is hybrid: it's neither writing nor drawing. I consider the use of the typewriter in schools an American virtue: it's fast, easy to learn, and clear, and to be clear is a duty we have towards others...
...Jumps. Whatever MacArthur's resolution of the prickly puzzle, the new and strangely hybrid Japanese labor movement will be an important factor in Japanese life for a long time to come. In a little more than a year of organizing, 4,400,000 workers have joined 17,000 unions in the two big federations, the revived N.F.L.U. (National Federation of Labor Unions) and the N.C.I.U. (National Congress of Industrial Unions). This literally represents a jump up from nothing. The N.F.L.U. and its predecessors never got more than about 400,000 members in prewar Japan, never bargained effectively. Imperial Japan...
...seed sales; now they were leveling off to a peacetime norm of slightly more than 50%. But vegetable growers, too, had plenty of novelties to choose from. Almost all seedsmen were featuring a new brownish-tinged lettuce called Bronze Beauty. Other attractions: a midget watermelon (Schling), a hybrid eggplant (Burpee), a yellow sweet pepper (Manhattan's Peter Henderson), a "giant tree tomato" (Vaughan's of Chicago...