Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...
...tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which crawled about the earth millions of years ago was not adequately equipped to cope with its environment, became extinct long before the great dinosaur appeared...
Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world...
...gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
...Friends, collectors, strangers sent him specimens. At an auction sale in a French town, he bought the collection of Dr. Oberthur, French scientist, discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant...