Word: extinctionism
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Only antelope in the world are found in Asia and Africa. But the fleet-footed North American pronghorns, tawny, wide-eyed little animals about the size of a calf, were called antelope on sight by the Adam-pioneers. Before those pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, '...
A raucously indefatigable practical joker (he once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him...
Merely the thought of Hitler's treatment of German Jews makes his protest of Czechoslovakia's discrimination against the Sudetens seem like a hypocritical fabrication. It was the removal of subversive elements that were threatening the unity of the state that Hitler claimed to be the purpose of the rout...
Author Mumford's analysis of the present pathology of metropolitan culture ticks it all off, from the paranoia of the ruling class to the servility of the crowd: "A million cowards upon whose blank minds the leader writes: Bravery." But he does not gloat over the threatened exhaustion of...
But Mr. Farley and the boys are not content with profaning the name of America's first gentleman and alienating the country's philatelists against he who claims to be the number one stamp collector as well as the first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women...