Word: defunction
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...church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective...
John Richard Brinkley is a doctor by virtue of a degree from the defunct Eclectic Medical University in Kansas City, whence he was graduated 25 years ago. In 1917 he began furnishing impotent men with goat glands, and by 1933 when he discontinued the treatment (for simpler methods) he had performed 5,000 "rejuvenating" operations. Since 1933 he has treated his hopeful patients with the blue fluid which Dr. Fishbein was so bearish about and with simple prostate operations. For a series of treatments with ⅓-ounce ampules of the drug, Dr. Brinkley often charges $250. Operations sometimes cost...
Rumania also mobilized last week, but rather halfheartedly. The country has long depended on alliances rather than military power for defense. (She was a member of the now defunct Little Entente, is at present a member of the Balkan Entente.) For a day or two it seemed to the outside world that Britain and France might rescue her from German pressure. But in the end Rumania signed on the dotted line. With that signature Adolf Hitler made his biggest killing to date. This week Rumanian Premier Armand Calinescu pathetically denied that his country had lost any of her independence...
...threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession...
...past month, various members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended...