Word: defunction
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...Goldwater wins the nomination, Lyndon Johnson gets my vote, and the Democratic Party gets my registration. My Republican Party will be defunct, and I cannot support a party remade to conform with a man who is not a Republican...
...June 26]," Lord Keynes stated in 1935: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas...
...armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress of Vienna, to find that stormy Twin Brother Evelyn has resolved to get their flighty mother out of debt. As the new earl, Evelyn has an income of 25,000 guineas a year...
...magazine was initiated in the fall of 1961 as an organ for the now defunct Harvard Political Participation Council, and "organizational clearing house for all political groups," according to David A. May '62, the first president of the publication...
John W. Harmon '65, who initiated the defunct line, said that the service was being dropped because it had not proved financially self-sufficient. He added that there was no indication that the situation would improve. "We wanted to find out and we did; in a week we were sitisfied that we knew," Harmon said last night...