Word: extinction
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...excellent example of this policy in action is the social relations field. The Social Relations Department was established after the war to include the now extinct Sociology Department and portions of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Before the war, these three departments together averaged 237 concentrators, or 6.6 percent of all concentrators. In the last three years, the social relations field has averaged 547 concentrators a year, 13.2 percent of the present total--exactly double the pre-war figure...
...when they go home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...
Died. William Jacob ("Will") Cuppy, 65, Indiana-born book critic (New York Herald Tribune) and humorist (How to Be a Hermit, 1929; How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931; How to Become Extinct, 1941); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Half a century passed, during which archdukes became practically extinct and even the golden hoards of the dollar princesses diminished. Last week, at the Moscow Operetta Theater, the Russians revived The Dollar Princess. They had decided that the story needed some changes-not many, really, just a point underscored here and an angle sharpened there...
Last week, while the diggers assembled their findings, another expedition was hunting for moas. Dr. Geoffrey B. Orbell, who had proved that the supposedly extinct takahe, a member of the rail family, was flourishing in southwestern South Island (TIME, Dec. 20), was out for bigger game. Though the supersized moas are dead & gone, Dr. Orbell has hopes that the little (turkey-sized) Anomalopteryx moa has not yet kicked its last...