Word: extinct
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Died. Barnum Brown, 89, curator emeritus of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...
Xenon 129 is a rare xenon isotope that is the descendant of iodine 129, a radioactive form of iodine that was created with the rest of the elements that formed the solar nebula and became extinct not many million years later. Since chondrules contain xenon 129, Merrihue argues that they must have acquired it from the decay of iodine 129. This means that they condensed as droplets during the infancy of the solar system, when everything else in the nebula was dust or gas-and they must be older than the earth...
CHRYSLER CORP.: 1,201,195 649,200 Plymouth 647,352 313,200 (Valiant) - (127,900) Dodge 284,323 248,900 Chrysler (incl. Imperial) 156,458 132,100 DeSoto 118,062 Extinct...
...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...cultural distinctiveness. Professor O'Neill explains that there is a tendency for every small country to have its individualism obliterated by the influence of more powerful countries around it and that Ireland is in danger of becoming completely Anglicized. If this happens, the Gaelic language will be virtually extinct. This will mean, among other things, the loss in the original Gaelic to the general reading public of all of Ireland's ancient literature, the oldest north of the Alps. The Irish do not want to bring an end to that literature: they want to preserve it and the tradition...