Word: extinct
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...Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian Shepherd dogs. It is claimed that they kill sheep...
...their doors. Thus, while legally closed, they continued to dispense candy, chewing gum, cigarets, etc. Meanwhile the slot machines, at first an emergency measure, gained so strong a hold upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have been rendered extinct by the same unfeeling government that created her. Indeed, the robots of the present have evolved into remarkably gifted samples of their species. They say "Thank you," they repeat trade slogans, they make change. One of the newest of Dora's progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This...
...expedition was on the whole a success, as we succeeded in gathering many types of the snail which may soon be extinct, as well as others not here to fore discovered. The specimens which we brought back are now aestivating in the museum...
...every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament) dissolved the union with Sweden, elected Prince Christian of Denmark King of Norway, proclaimed him "King Haakon VII"-thus reviving the traditions of the ancient and extinct native royal line of Norway-and finally declared the present dynasty hereditary. To Oslo with King Haakon VII came the Princess he had married in 1896, the youngest (third) daughter of His Majesty Edward VII, British King and Emperor, to reign as inconspicuous and reserved but very popular Queen Maud...
...Note,--Dean Gauss, laus Deo, is right. The raccoon coat is very nearly extinct. But is he not mistaken as to the cause of its disappearance? Perhaps a more effective reason for its demise was its adoption by the drugstore cowboy and the "Harvard Square student" and a consequent bringing of the college man to a realization of his grotesqueness. --Dean Gauss of Princeton, in the Saturday Evening Post...