Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irritation aside, there seems to be something larger at stake: respect for books. And students do more than deface books; some go through bound volumes of magazines and rip out the articles that interest them. It is sad to think that the love of books is extinct at one of the most prestigious universities in the world...
Having been subject to the Des Moines Register for some seven years, I say that if the Register is in the top ten, print journalism is very nearly extinct...
...these collections have become increasingly more important as animals become extinct or as environments change. We have things from Miami where now you see skyscrapers. As man alters the enviroment, the collections become more and more important...
Along with the Chinese birds are two great auks, an extinct relative of the penguin. "No other museum has more than one," Paynrwe says...
...that an English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have...