Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feminine sweaters and skirts require pretty, polished shoes--and certainly no sneakers. Classrooms are in for a new era of neat loafers and slim low pumps, or the handsome British shoes and their imitations now flooding the market. Stockings are important; the woolly anklets take their place with the extinct Great...
...Young Progressives are fighting against time. With the elections three weeks away, the club--now officially extinct after two years of sputtering existence--must secure immediate University recognition to be able to campaign in the College for the Progressive Party candidates and platform...
There is a big fight in the tree-world. Two professors are waging a bitter war over a fast-growing tree, believed extinct for many millions of years...
...area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane-the first found in Canada since 1922. Under the 1916 Migratory Birds treaty with the U.S., Canada's Wildlife Service is now bound to protect the area and do all it can to prevent the rare bird from becoming extinct...
Diarist Strong belonged to a species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...