Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall, French literature high up in Widener, French phonograph records at the Union, and French movies at the Geographical Institute. Nowhere is there a permanent exhibit of French photographs, maps, sketches, statues, or paintings; nor is there any logical center for French extra-curricular lectures, or for the now moribund French Club. These basic defects--decentralization and inadequacy--are also found in the Spanish and Italian Departments, and both could be corrected by a Center for Romance Civilization...
When money-making little Graham Creighton Patterson quit as publisher of the Christian Herald in 1935 to take over Philadelphia's moribund Farm Journal, a Herald colleague said: "Goodby, Graham. If you become as good a farmer as you were a Christian, God pity the farmers...
...were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar of Tennessee...
...Fine Arts Department action in dismissing Feild in that it must use the University's tenure system. But Feild was unique in his attitude toward the subject which he taught, which is shown by his great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost to Harvard...
...endorsing French rearmament against the Fascist "menace." He wanted the U. S., Great Britain, France, Poland and Soviet Russia to form a democratic front against the dictatorships so that they would have to concede no more to threats of war. M. Blum also wanted France to revive the now moribund French-Soviet alliance...