Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the University last year provided the Business School lot, few took this offer seriously, especially when a long, wet walk and an hour of jockeying on ice were in prospect. Four hundred car-owners applied for space, and tickets were destined to become extinct. But one night when the plow was unable to squeeze through a congested street, the police investigated and found only 40 cars in the lot. The remaining autos were clustered about the Houses and getting away with...
Scollay Square was named after Colnel William Scollay, Class of 1804. Scollay was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Boston and his family was one of the first in the city commercially, socially, and civically. The Scollays were a dignified and staid family, but are now extinct in Boston. It is just as well
Died. John Wilkinson, 83, who in 1902 developed the U.S.'s first efficient air-cooled internal-combustion engine (used only on the now-extinct Franklin), with Henry Ford founded the Society of Automotive Engineers; of arteriosclerosis; in Syracuse...
...once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...
...administrators also fervently trust that the breed of true scholar athletes is not yet extinct and that there are plenty of football players who can still want and deserve a Harvard education. But then again, it may be that the rest of the nation's colleges have already turned intercollegiate football into a permanent morass...