Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further spending, nearly $450 was authorized for financing three-to-five full page reports in the CRIMSON. Spaced two months apart, these Student Council Reports will replace the defunct Harvard Quarterly. The new format was proposed and will be directed by Carl Sloane...
...physicians combine homeopathy with M.D. practice. Reddick has an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College, serves as senior psychiatrist at Maryland's Eastern Shore State Hospital. But homeopathy is his chosen vocation, and three years ago he launched a homeopathic revival. As a first step, he joined the nearly defunct Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, eventually became secretary-treasurer of both the society and the seven-man examining board, which issues licenses. Last year there were no license applications, so Go-Getter Reddick advertised for new members. Of the 23 candidates that showed up, eleven were from a correspondence college...
...conditioning equipment has been stepped up to a capacity equaling 2,000,000 Ibs. of ice daily, will lower the temperature by ten degrees. To replace the backbreaking wooden chairs on the convention floor, the Democratic National Committee has latched onto 2,500 softly cushioned seats from the defunct Paradise Theater-"Thus," says a party publicity puff, "enabling our delegates to concentrate more intently on the very important decisions under consideration...
...Italian-born pastry cook, Sammartino graduated from City College, studied at the Sorbonne, finally became an associate of the now defunct experimental New College at Teachers College, Columbia. There, in the mid-'30s he took part in a survey of high-school principals around Rutherford, found them agreed that too many of their students were missing out on a college education either because they could not afford to go to a campus away from home or because they could not get the training they wanted. In 1941 Sammartino and a group of the principals began discussing plans...
Crowell-Collier plans to bolster both of the ailing magazines with a "transfusion" of circulation from American. After August, the company will send Collier's or Companion, on an arbitrary, fifty-fifty basis, to the defunct American's 1,875,000 subscribers. If a subscriber does not like what he gets, he may request the other magazine or−only as a last resort, the company hopes−ask for his money back. Most of American's editorial features will be split up between the two magazines. Its longtime Editor Blossom, 64, becomes a Crowell-Collier vice...