[A]s many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servant went the way of the dodo bird, and the maids, servants, and hired girls who had helped with the back-breaking housework preferred jobs in offices.

Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule would go the way of the Dodo bird.

Without sending the verification, your credit for the find goes the way of the dodo bird.

She Thelma Golden] wanted to emphasize that postmulticulturalist African American artists had both benefited from and wanted to move on from that narrow focus on racial content over formal quality. She certainly didn't mean to suggest that racism had gone the way of the dodo bird or that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite.

The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird.

In the new Atomic Age, little thought was given (again) to the relevancy of the lone shooter, and the allies continued to thumb their noses at history and allowed their sniper programs to go the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists.

During Reconstruction, after [William Tecumseh] Sherman had torched the place, the planners decided to let the old historic landmarks go the way of the dodo bird; and over the next century and a half Atlanta got tarted up in steel and glass.

Go the way of the dodo bird

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