Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train, and had remained at Luxor for an extra day, to be shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...
...more than a necessary evil. It is a great law of nature. . . . War has always accompanied life and will not disappear until life on this planet becomes extinct...
...recent development in printing. The first Eng- lish printed books by Caxton had for type the Flemish script which was perhaps the ugliest of all forms of writing. This evil influence dominates the whole of English printing for the greater part of the nineteenth century, and is not yet extinct...
...confused with Ford's quasi-extinct Model T. Standard Sanitary's is a kitchen sink...
...some portly oil barons met in a Manhattan hotel room and the now-extinct Continental Trading Co. of Canada bought 33,333,333 bbls. of oil for $1.50 per barrel. The same day, the Continental Co. sold the same oil for $1.75 per barrel to the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, instantly netting some eight million dollars on paper.* The strange thing was that a third company, which guaranteed the Continental purchase, was jointly owned by Sinclair, who controlled Continental and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, which was buying from Continental...