Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia, picked up the moribund Enquirer-Sun in Columbus. For the next ten years he and his wife had the time of their lives, baiting Ku Klux Klansmen, lynchers, the great Evolution trial. In 1926 he got the Pulitzer Prize for "most disinterested and meritorious public service" from Northerners but in 1930 he lost his paper to old-line Southerners. A financial failure, he had, however, attracted the respectful notice of U. S. liberals, of his old friends on the Atlanta Constitution and of the far-seeing New York Times. Contributing to the latter, he went back to work...
...title of business manager did small justice to Louis Wiley's journalistic functions. No mere countingroom man, he was Publisher Adolph Ochs's confidant, adviser, ambassador, and on occasion, alter ego. Just short of 40 years ago he first approached Mr. Ochs, who had bought the moribund Times, persuaded the publisher to hire him at $40 a week. He was then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards...
...stomachs of those who have never experienced an Eliot House repast, there may lurk the false assumption that Lowell House has a monopoly on worm-ridden fish, bad eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor...
Bethlehem, No. 2 steel company of the land, actually reported a profit last week, $550,000 as against a deficit of $8,700,000 in 1933. Even more dependent on the moribund rail and building markets than U. S., Bethlehem was operating at 40% of capacity. President Eugene Grace, who has not earned a $1,000,000 bonus in several years, dourly remarked that he could see no reason why operations would not hold at that level for "a little while...
...jugular vein. A small quantity of blood is set aside for laboratory study while the rest, treated with potassium citrate, goes into cold storage. Surgeon Judin, who perfected the storage of blood in wholesale quantities and arranged for the gathering of donor corpses, has revived moribund patients with blood stored as long as 30 days. Best results, however, came with 12-day-old blood...