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...Elliott, who filmed Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive, has signed affidavits that every foot of Devil Tiger was filmed in the jungles of India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya. His shot of a lion fighting a tiger (with the comment that lions are "nearly" extinct in Asia) may cause some quarrels. Many an animal expert believes that what lions there are in Asia are on the central plains, not in the southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous other animals in a lavish variety...
...owed not to the evidence of any single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places in the West and Southwest, he pointed out, human remains and crude implements had been found in association with certain species of ground sloths, musk oxen, elephants, all long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory...
...courtier, he had few worries in his early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness "with an almost religious decorum," and discovering the perennial truth that the gentleman is an almost extinct species, wrote a manual of best behavior (The Courtier) which still makes later books of etiquette seem crude...
Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...
...records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations, and when the "Regulations Pertaining to College Studies" will be an extinct item prized by book-collectors...