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...once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...
...administrators also fervently trust that the breed of true scholar athletes is not yet extinct and that there are plenty of football players who can still want and deserve a Harvard education. But then again, it may be that the rest of the nation's colleges have already turned intercollegiate football into a permanent morass...
...authors pay homage to such old institutions as the now extinct fence which drew freshmen with a "magic magnetism," recount the ban on lower class roller skating, and call the institution the "mother of colleges...
Hotel in Chicago. He could do the then popular but now extinct King Tutankhamen shuffle without blundering a flick...
Curioso "may be well-nigh extinct, but he is as good a fellow, surely, as the virtuoso who survives almost in abundance. A curioso took care, inquired, studied, was expert. He practised curiosity...