Word: defunction
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...showing white bathers at a beach shaking their fists at Negro bathers on the other side of a lifeline. The caption: "The color line has reached the North." Boxed at the right was a reprint of an interview Senator Medill McCormick was supposed to have given to the since defunct Chicago Journal on the race riots...
...writing of Mural Painter José Clemente Orozco of Mexico last issue, TIME said: . . . "He was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct Delphic Studios." TIME was in error. Closed for the summer only, Delphic Studios reopens this week with an exhibition by famed Photographer Edward Weston of Carmel, Calif...
...plaster so that the design becomes a part of and not an application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York where he was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct Delphic Studio. Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason. The West's view of Orozco, a view of one of the finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south...
...used to bicycle through the Irish countryside as a representative of the Irish Agricultural Cooperative Society, establishing banks, forming creamery and poultry groups. His now defunct magazine, the Irish Statesman (TIME, May 12), preached rural teamplay. He says his efforts at home, successful, are at an end. In the U. S. he plans to preach from lecture-platforms during a six-months tour...
...America team was originated in 1886 in an obscure magazine by the late Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney. In 1889 the feature was transferred to now-defunct Harper's Weekly under Mr. Camp's name, and in 1897 to Collier's. The fame of Camp maintained the standing of the feature. After his death in 1925 the selections were ably handled by Grantland Rice, but the basic idea was openly condemned by coaches and experts as too restrictive, bad for football. Partly as a protest against the notion of Collier's omniscience, partly...