Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations, and when the "Regulations Pertaining to College Studies" will be an extinct item prized by book-collectors...
...critic. The entire state machinery has been mobilized to crush and exterminate this movement. His following comprises within its ranks multitudes of those who by the strictest Marxian canons can be classified as proletarians. Whether Gandhi survives his present self-imposed ordeal or not he will never be an extinct volcano in Indian public life...
...with set-back legs which make it stand upright like a penguin, the murre breeds in colonies on Arctic cliff ledges. It lays an egg pointed at one end so that it rolls in a circle, does not fall off the ledge. Once hunted for oil as were the extinct great auks, murres have grown scarce, are now protected by treaty between the U. S. and Canada. Only Indians and Eskimos may eat their eggs or kill them for food...
...thick-beaked birds they had never seen before. Not since 1908 had such a bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...
...good for a man to feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth take the CRIMSON in its annual touch classic this afternoon, after gathering for instructions around the cone of the extinct volcano which serves the CRIMSON as a skoal bowl, and which never seems extinct...