Word: extinctionism
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One of the advantages possessed by the playwright over writers of other literary forms is that when he produces a work with deficiencies that would ensure its speedy extinction in any other medium he may have it cast and produced so effectively as to make it a hit. Such is...
The big square knapsacks of the French poilus were lightened last week of the Marshal's batons, which, said Napoleon, every French soldier carries. At a meeting of the French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear...
It is true that the undergraduate publications have attacked it, but their attitude indicates not so much antagonism to the house plan as dissatisfaction because they were not informed about the progress of events. We venture to say, for instance, that the CRIMSON would have shown a quite different state...
"Causes of Extinction", Professor Allen, Zoology Laboratory 46.
In Africa, many a tribal chieftain organizes periodic Bacchanalian orgies to ward off extinction, maintain virility.