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Word: extinctionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Colonel Jim Corbett, 80, big-game hunter and tracker, author of best-selling books on his jungle campaigns against the big cats of India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

The Long Vow. Abandoned, Chitor became a haunt of tigers, one of a thousand Hindu shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Reconquest of Chitor | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

The reactionary camp led by the United States is day by day showing its inferior position of passivity and isolation. Its extinction - which means the extinction of the entire world capitalism - is only a matter of time. All mankind is on the eve of the total extinction of world capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES: EXTINCTION OF U.S. A MATTER OF TIME | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

¶ The Republican Party stands in danger of defeat and extinction if it does not attract more people by becoming more dynamic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DWIGHT EISENHOWER, POLITICIAN | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

MEDITATION : "Life and death are different and essential aspects of the same creative process . . . And we accept as inevitable the eventual extinction of human individuals and the return of their bodies, indestructible in their ultimate elements, to the Nature that brought them forth ..."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Last Rites for Atheists | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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