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...most gaging comment of all came from near the base of the famed extinct volcano Fujiyama, where a reporter interviewed extinct Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka, who in frock coat had signed both the Tripartite Pact and the neutrality pact with Russia (and therefor lost his job) was now dressed in a dark blue cotton gown and triangular straw hat. He carried a long staff and smoked his old briar pipe. Mused...
...recorder was antique even in Shakespeare's time. Although in England and Germany the recorder never quite became extinct, elsewhere it became a museum piece like the crwth (a type of Welsh fiddle), the nose flute, the theorbo. Five years ago, when a man asked for a recorder at G. Schirmer, Inc., Manhattan's big music store, he drew blank. Last week Schirmer's had a window full of recorders. Even during the dull summer months, sales had gone...
...moon's great craters are extinct volcanoes and not meteoric pockmarks as many scientists have believed. So said Roy K. Marshall of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. His reasoning: If the moon has no atmosphere at all, a one-inch meteorite traveling 20 miles a second would strike it with an explosion visible from the earth. About 1,000 meteors that size must have fallen moonward in the past century, but no explosion has been seen. Therefore, the moon must have enough atmosphere to consume them long before they could make pockmarks. Probably it is only one millionth...
...indication, there was no student interventionist organization on the Campus and only on (admittedly half-extinct) non-interventionist group. The lone articulate undergraduate body concerned with any phase of the war was the local chapter of the National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies...
Today he is more nearly extinct than the bison. Great horns still spring above barroom mirrors; a proud, sad specimen stands stuffed at the Fort Worth airport; Texans still like to call themselves "Longhorns," or "Texas Steers." But until last week the Longhorn was without much honor, or the lore that might bring it to him, save in his own country...