Word: defunction
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Died. Raymond William Stevens, 58, onetime president of defunct Illinois Life Insurance Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Highland Park...
...Raymond William Stevens, ex-president of the defunct $150,000,000 Illinois Life Insurance Co. was about to go on trial last week for embezzlement of the company's assets in trying to save the great LaSalle and Stevens Hotels...
Shades of Chang. Among the few defunct persons who are kept and will long remain in China's memory is Young Marshal Chang's dread, great father, Old Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent...
First in the Washington news letter field was the Whaley-Eaton Service, which has now probably the largest circulation. It was founded in 1918 by Percival Huntington Whaley and Henry Morris Eaton. Eaton was onetime managing editor of the defunct Philadelphia Press...
...leads unfortunates to the laboratories in droves. Disregarding the well known advantages of a "cultural background" many men continue to elect courses in Biology, which involve a great deal of laboratory work, and which will later be almost duplicated in medical school. Their time is spent crouched over a defunct dog-fish, while literature and life alike are closed to them...