Word: extinctionism
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Augmented fleets of locusts, gathering for summer manoeuvers in the sugar belt, recently swooped down over Manila in such numbers as to put that city in semi-darkness for almost six hours. A game of gold was interrupted. In the Maine woods a whole forestry service is goading an army...
Within ten days after it left Peking, the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (TIME, April 28), under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, unearthed a fossil carnivorous dinosaur in the Mongolian desert. The giant, lizard-like reptile has not been identified with other known species...
The pioneer is pursued so closely by commerce, even in the air, that his type seems in danger of extinction. But there is much yet to do. Around-the-world trips are already planned, the speed of flight will be increased, and most important, the machines in time will be...
Most hopeful of all the matters yet taken up is the stand which one member has bravely taken against children's stories. Here is indeed a step forward. What a multitude of sins would go with the extinction of Johnny Smith and his splendid promptness at school, or Bully the...
Yet it must be a great relief and rather an encouragement to those same reformers to find that their notoriously proper neighbors across the water are suffering from the same lamentable public sentiment which supports our pink and green and yellow journals to "pander to the blood lust of a...