Word: extinct
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...Antiquities, was "a very able man, if man is the right word; for he was a worker of miracles, a teacher of those who were glad to hear the truth, and he won over many Jews and many Gentiles. And the group called Christians after him is not extinct...
...until last week -worth $.0000065, sixty-five one-hundred thousandths of a U.S. cent. Valued at one twentieth of a cent ($.0005) when it was first issued in 1944, the centavo became a victim of Brazil's roaring inflation, and last week the government finally declared it extinct. So is the one-cruzeiro note (worth 100 centavos), which cost four cruzeiros to print. From now on, cruzeiros up to the 500 denomination (value: 33?) will be issued as coins. As for the centavo, it immediately became worth more dead than alive. Last week an early ten-centavo piece...
...will open for business for the first time this year with a 4800 foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence, one of America's finest Olympic skiers, will direct the ski school. Mt. Ascutney in Windsor is a new area on the North slope of an extinct volcano with 120 acres of meticulously groomed trails up to 13/4 miles in length. Its double chair lift carries 900 skiers an hour on a 4700' ride up a 1470' vertical rise, while three T-bar lifts serve the lower slopes for the novice and intermediate skier. The area...
...Paleoparadoxia ("Ancient contradiction"), an amphibious mammal bigger than a rhinoceros that wallowed in the shallows 15 to 20 million years ago when California's Coast Ranges had not yet risen and the site of inland Palo Alto was still under the sea. Paleoparadoxia belongs to a long-extinct order, the desmostylians, which lived the lives of saltwater hippopotamuses around the shores of the North Pacific. It was first found in Japan, but the Palo Alto skeleton is the only one found in North America...
...answer is twofold. First, since the single wing is practically extinct, teams no longer construct defenses to cope with it. Princeton's opponents must hastily slap together new defensive formations, with no time for the players to learn them well...