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Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...
...gesture worthy of France: the Lafayette should come bearing if not La Fayettes, then, since the male line is extinct, descendent Dampierres...
Though generally considered an almost extinct disease, leprosy still grips between two and three million sufferers. Most of these are herded into colonies which dot the globe. There they are treated, often cured...
Three worlds record heads and four heads of species of deer that are now extinct in the wild state have been discovered in the collection of horns and antlers, recently presented to the University by J.C. Phillips '99, which has just been put on display in the Agassiz Museum...
...life of the conference has not yet been officially pronounced extinct," ran an editorial, "but it is already beyond the power of human aid. Only a miracle can save it. All the optimists confidently predicted for it has come to nothing. . . . Mr. MacDonald's intentions were admir able, but he made the same sort of blunder made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who reached a preliminary naval understanding with France in 1927, and then submitted...