Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...
Died. Robert D. Towne, 86, onetime Universalist minister who propounded, while he was editor of the now-defunct humor weekly Judge, the famed "How-old-is-Ann?" riddle that intrigued the U.S.; after long illness; in Ambler, Pa. The riddle: "Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary...
...Defunct since 1935, the tourney is open to faculty members, undergraduates, and graduate students who will compete for a trophy and the University Championship. This is the first of many All-University squash matches, which will be held each year. Because of such great interest shown this year. Barnaby plans to start next year's tournament earlier to make sure it is finished before the squash season ends...
...Freshman Union may receive some important guests shortly. The Union Committee last night voted to ressurrect the long defunct Harvard Union Speakers Program, which during the '20's brought a host of prominent men to speak before the freshman class...
These costumes, together with paintings, sculpture, photographs, and designs, are all products of the now defunct Bauhaus School of art and architecture. The school was formed and headed by Walter Gropius. And from its inception in 1919 until 1933 when the Nazis closed the school, the Bauhaus made the most startling and the most widely copied innovations in both functional art and art teaching techniques. The exhibit currently at the Busch Reisinger Museum is actually but a small part of the Bauhaus show now in Boston. The rest, which mainly accentuates the work of Dr. Gropius, is at the Institute...