Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross' studies of community-school relations in New England have raised considerable interest. When at Iowa State College, he made studies of farm areas and of the farmer's acceptance of new technological developments, such as hybrid corn...
...genetics into other phases of Soviet agriculture. He was largely responsible for a costly and disastrous experiment with forest-belt planting. His notions about crop rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...
...Stalin. His critics began speaking up, and got away with it. Early in 1954 one of his proteges was denounced in Pravda itself. Genetics of true scientific type began to be taught and used again. When Soviet agriculturists visited the U.S. last summer, they were enormously impressed by hybrid corn and ordered carloads of seed...
...Hybrid Vigor...
...Wisdom can achieve a hybrid vigor by crossing the scientist and the humanist through a more extensive and intensive interaction within the faculty," he suggested. "Why should not the professor of physics to expected to refresh himself every seven years with a sabbatical by taking a course in aesthetics or comparative literature or in the Greek drama?" he asked...