Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betting odds had been 7-5 on Roosevelt, with few takers; they became 12-5 on Roosevelt, with practically no takers, and possible Willkie bettors were being nourished as tenderly as a zoo keeper cherishes the last of a soon-to-be-extinct species...
Because in speaking for themselves they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...
...German-dominated or not, her great fleet of whaling ships will be out again in force, and so will those of other whaling nations, except perhaps Germany. In five years Dr. Murphy expects whaling to stop-for the simple reason that commercially useful whales will be so nearly extinct that hunting them will no longer be profitable...
...site in Colorado, which had been investigated by archeologists under Dr. Frank H. B. Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institute, and is considered "the most important find in recent years." If has yielded over 2,000 ancient stone implements, many of which were found imbedded in the vertebrae of extinct mensters. Around these and similar relies found elsewhere, a whole civilization of so-called "Folsom men" developed...