Word: defunction
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...week the Ardmore meteorite was carefully analyzed. It proved to be a genuine granular hexahedrite, and there is enough of the odd stuff for all sorts of experiments, which may prove the La Paz contention: that the meteorite could never have been formed from the molten inside of a defunct planet. It may have been formed in some other way deep in interstellar space, or in another planetary system around some foreign star...
...entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
...faculty members have agreed to sponsor the organization: Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, and Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government. Beer was one of the sponsors of the now defunct Democratic Club, which was organized in September...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
...theatre was opened in 1843 as the Millerite Tabernacle of a now defunct seet. It then was re-christened the Howard Athenacum and became one of the leading legitimate theatres in the country. Gaining its present name, the Old Howard is now world famous for strip tease presentations. Rose LaRese noted laterpretative daneer, will be the last of the Howard's long line of greats...