Word: extinctions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fifteen years ago, bow & arrow hunting was almost extinct in the U. S. Today every State except Arizona permits hunting with bow & arrow; twelve States have special preserves for bowmen, three States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) have separate hunting seasons for archers...
...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...
Betting odds had been 7-5 on Roosevelt, with few takers; they became 12-5 on Roosevelt, with practically no takers, and possible Willkie bettors were being nourished as tenderly as a zoo keeper cherishes the last of a soon-to-be-extinct species...
Because in speaking for themselves they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...