Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Wallace finished speaking, some 1,200 farmers cheered for a full minute. Then Henry Wallace headed back for South Salem, where he works with hybrid gladioli and strawberries. Said he: "I'm crossing strawberry seedlings from Macedonia, Switzerland, Canada and elsewhere." And sometimes they grow "almost as large as a golf ball...
...juvenile delinquents. He has composed Pulitzer Prizewinning poems (The Conquistador by Archibald Mac-Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME...
Both military and civilian aircraft users have long demanded a helicopter-airplane hybrid: a "convertiplane" that can take off vertically like a helicopter and fly as fast and as economically as an airplane. Many designs have been tested, but none with notable success...
Troubled Morocco is a hybrid North African protectorate where France nominally holds overall authority through a puppet sultan but in turn sublets the sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...
...comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings." ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid of Borodin and tin Pan Alley...