Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition, sentiment, the hopes of the founder, all have their weight on the side of an independent and communal Union, and against an all-Freshman or a hybrid Freshman-upperclass-dining-common room scheme. Practicality is of far greater moment, and the need under the House Plan of such a general club as the Union now is, especially during the difficult initiation of the new, is self-evident...
...studies of fertility and sterility both within the species Rattus norvegicus, and in crosses between it and Rattus rattus. Several previous investigations have found this cross invariably unsuccessful, but Dr. Feldman found that under favorable circumstances normal matings can be induced between norvegicus females and rattus males, and that hybrid embryos may be produced. For some reason, however, these embroyos die and are either resorbed or aborted before the completion of the normal gestation period. The longest continued gestation for hybrid embryes thus far observed terminated in about 15 days, whereas a normal gestation should cover about 22 days...
Unknown to most perusers of Harvard periodicals there has flourished for 17, years an embryo "Alumni Bulletin," a sheet bearing the hardly reconcilable hybrid name of "The Crimpoon...
...increase-and what good is there to the owners thereof? And again readers asked the question: Is this according to the doctrine of Opportunity-for-all which stimulates every man to forge his way to the top? Is it not rather the end of initiative, the beginning of a hybrid Hindu-Socialism...
Manhattan's publishing organisms were again diminished in number. For something in the neighborhood of $2,850,000, the sons of the builder of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung acquired and merged the 132-year-old Commercial and the century-old Journal of Commerce. The new hybrid's title was Journal of Commerce and Commercial; its policy was to follow that of the late Journal of Commerce. The new owners contemplated selling their Associated Press franchise, perhaps to the tabloid Daily News. It would bring perhaps quarter of a million...