Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long believed extinct, a tree that thrived one hundred million years ago will again blossom this year at the Arnold Arboretum...
...bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there was no truth in the rumors...
Children over 16 may have objections to the sickly yellow cast of the Cinecolor and to the reappearance of that almost extinct species, the shuffling yaassuh-bawss Negro comic...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...Signature is an attractive-looking job, with its makeup improved over the extinct Radditudes. The cover, a pleasant photograph of a girl outside Harvard Hall, sets the inter-collegiate tone, while the football-weekend montage inside lends the timely mood. The new magazine has set itself a road to travel; the need for it seem to be there; and this issue is worth its thirty-five cent price...