Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giant sloth, thought to have been extinct...
Those dangling, immobile, from the cliffs are the Eskimos, the Polynesians, the Nomads-the arrested civilizations. Among the debris on the ledges are the bodies of the Sumeric, Babylonic, Egyptiac, Hellenic, Mexic and eleven other extinct societies. This is the image; and its evocation of the "infinitely multiple ordeal of man" is made bearable by Professor Toynbee's unifying insistence: history is not predetermined. Man may still choose to climb or not to climb...
...Harvard was not so sure that Man would evolve so triumphantly. "If we were dinosaurs, back in the days of their greatness," he said, "we would probably have had similar thoughts (if we'd had brains to think them). The dinosaurs didn't go further, and became extinct...
...never a duke. Wrote he: "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten...
Visitors to Mexico City's National Bellas Artes gallery last week saw a mountain of modern Mexican painting. Except for the work of one artist, the mountain was close to being an extinct volcano. But inextinguishable firebrand David Alfaro Siqueiros had summoned up enough live steam and hot lava to make plenty of activity...