Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* The Maoris, once supposed to be on their way to extinction, have doubled their numbers (from 50,000 to 100,000) in 30 years.
When union president Daniel G. Mulvihill requested another wage increase for University maids, he did not expect to touch off a purge of gracious living. But the University immediately announced its favor toward the Tech plan of a porter service, of, by, and for the students. The traditional Harvard maid...
A lone California Elephant Seal stands at the right of the entrance to the Zoological Museum. His epitaph reads: "the species has been reduced through persecutions, as it yields rich oil . . ." A Siberian Sea Otter looks out from the next glass case. "This species is now on the verge of...
English A's path toward extinction was outlined on page 199 the report of the Harvard Committee on General Education in a Free Society. The report complained that English A had the "weakness of segregating training in writing from the fields of learning. . . Other members of the faculty too often...
Herberg's conclusion: "What decades of Czarist persecution could not do, Communist totalitarianism seems on the verge of accomplishing-the stifling of every form of Jewish expression, the total extinction of Jewish existence."