Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant. The Rev. Case was not a formal man. When Clifford Jr. found a diagram for a sailboat on wheels, his father helped him build one in the attic. The sight of Pastor Case riding down the street with two or three of his children in the hybrid vehicle was, for a time, the talk of Poughkeepsie...
Died. Dr. George Harrison Shull, 80, longtime (1915-42) professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, developer (in a never-ending series of experiments begun in 1905) of hybrid corn (along with Harvard's Edward Murray East, who was experimenting independently at the same time), which has resulted in a 25%-50% increase in corn production per acre; after long illness; in Princeton...
...success in all these parts is a triumph of the whole, and the triumph belongs to Director Ophuls. The hybrid style he has developed, with its exotic fertilizations from a dozen earlier epochs, has at last produced a mature fruit-a sort of artistic pomegranate. The flavor is a shade oversubtle, but most people will be delighted to have tried...
...speech -even more mocking than before. He did not take back a word about EDC. Marshal Juin, a graduate of St. Cyr (where he was a classmate of Charles de Gaulle), was utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international command. "I have always thought what I think now," he said. Like the Gaullists, Juin professed to favor German rearmament in some other form. But, like most other right-wing opponents of EDC, he left unexplained how a France which fears to rearm Germany with EDC restrictions would...
...mating modern corn and teosinte, a synthetic hybrid corn cob was developed which closely matched, in size and botanical characteristics, prehistoric corn cobs found in caves in the southwestern United States...