Word: extinctionism
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When Walter Runciman told the British public that Japanese trade was threatening Empire firms with extinction, he made an announcement of major diplomatic importance. Up till now England and Japan, despite small frictions, such as the invasion of Manchuria, have maintained cordial, gentlemanly relations; they were two empires with but...
Babies. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of Iowa University asked the American Medical Association to consider birth control.* Dr. Barton Cooke Hirst of Philadelphia argued vehemently against the subject. "An undue limitation of fecundity has been one of the precursors to the extinction of a civilization or the subjugation of a...
"The mission in some form is a matter not of choice but of obligation. . . . But the essential rightness of the mission idea will not save actual missions from decline or extinction unless in spirit and deed they worthily present that idea.
"It was the sponsored program [i. e. advertising] that saved broadcasting from extinction. The goodwill of the public can be gained through broadcasting only by giving the public what it wants to hear."-Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co.
"I am unwilling to see a nation of 400,000,000 people extinguished by the Kuomintang which has repudiated itself. If the party cannot save the nation and benefit the people, then it is doomed to extinction, which I will not regret."