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...idea that Liberal Arts and the Liberal Arts college must both change greatly after this war, or they may become extinct, keynoted the History and Literature Forum on "The Liberal Arts and the War," held last night in the Lowell House Common Room...
They were fighting planes of a breed that is almost extinct-old Gladiator biplanes with none of the weight and speed of Hurricanes and Spitfires. But they could do "tight loops and tight turns" that their newer rivals never could. When Quayle and his mates flew their Gladiators above the front lines in northern Greece, their orders were to ignore the enemy fighter escorts and get the bombers...
...year roadside-stand-tourist-camp business, whose thousands of establishments lived on the gypsy-like wanderings of Americans, becomes virtually extinct...
Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
When discussing Brigadier General James H. Doolittle [TIME, June 1], you state: "He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost extinct flightless bird, and from the 'Modock,' legendary aviation term for a 'bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...