Word: extincted
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...late Roland M. Smythe began buying old Southern bonds that were considered worthless. But some of them proved valuable. In 1904 he published Smythe's Valuable Extinct Securities Guide. Last week Otto Peretz Schwarzschild, who bought the business in 1930, brought the guide up to date. Listed were 5,500 such extinct securities as those of Amethyst Mining Co., Kowkash Holdings, Ltd., Unique Operating Co. Announced Mr. Schwarzschild: "While the activities of the SEC have curtailed the output of sour securities, it will be a long time before the obsolete security business faces extinction...
...turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...
Numbering about 300 differently named forms, collected at a thousand stations in the Islands, the collection contains many species now extinct and is regarded as one of the best over assembled in that area...
...fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged in the ape jaw. How could a creature lower in the evolutionary scale than man possess human features? asked the anthropologists. Are the human teeth in the ape's jaw an evolutionary sidetrack? Or was this now extinct ape a closer relative of man than the chimpanzee and gorilla...
John C. Carter '41 uncovered one large print, which after debate was attributed to the great race of extinct reptiles. Proudly tucking the case of it under his arm, he brought it back to present to his home-town library...