Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly together, creating a heavy, lifeless "neutron star." With the possible exception of one 19th Century supernova, the supernova reported by Dr. Zwicky last week was the brightest ever studied by modern astronomers. It was ten times brighter than the average supernova, 100 times brighter than the whole island universe to which it belonged...
...army which was scouring the countryside, stumbled into a deep gully about two miles back from the road in the Baldwin Hills. There in weeds as high as a man's head, her face pushed into the dirt, a clothesline tight around her cold little neck was the lifeless body of one of the girls, ravished and murdered. In the bushes a few yards away, similiarly strangled and raped, were the bodies of the others. As the horrible news of California's crime-of-the-year spread through the Los Angeles area, police began a round...
Therefore, in all probability viruses are lifeless molecules. And, concluded Dr. Wyckoff, sweating on one of the hottest days Denver ever experienced, "a new field of research into the mechanism and control of disease is opened up by the possibility of treating its cause as a pure chemical compound. It is not unreasonable to hope that experiments of this type will some day indicate a new way in which the body can protect itself against dis-ease...
Because to the British mind a nude woman is not unseemly so long as she is disguised as a lifeless ornament in a fishpond or a Grecian statuet, Britons who want to see a comely naked woman can do so by visiting the "nonstop reviews" at London's Windmill Theatre which for five years have included undressed tableaux...
...whose interest in the conviction of several of the witches was more than a religious one, Nathaniel Saltonsall, the only man in Salem who had the strength to stand up and refuse to assist at the trials, and many others remain in our memory as living people, not dry, lifeless figures found only in books of history...