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...still uncertain what effect the failure to obtain nude models will have on the Club's existence. The group almost became extinct three years ago when an officer was disciplined for using a nude model without University permissions. It returned to activity last fall, and soon got permission to have nude models...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shy Models Pose Artists Problems | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Virginia, but Folsom Man apparently built no dwellings, and he did not leave his bones where they would be preserved for modern diggers. Chief argument for his antiquity was that his characteristic spear points are often found associated with the bones of animals, particularly a kind of now-extinct bison (Bison taylori). But not all experts were convinced by such evidence; Bison taylori, they objected, may have been around until fairly recent times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Early Hunter | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Re-Examinists | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more superbly agile lizard had lived off its own tail, consumed itself and come back to exactly what it was before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...happen to be Mrs. Denmanson. Was city editor of the now extinct Seattle Star at the time. Few controversial letters were arriving for the "From Our Readers" column, and one of our many successive editors asked me to whip out a few phony letters to bring in replies from readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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