Word: moribundity
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...drawing away from the Commonwealth, which they do not want to do. How can Britain get in on the discussions without committing itself? Adenauer outlined to Macmillan a solution of the kind so beloved by diplomats: Why not get the British into the European conversations through the existing but moribund seven-nation Western Europe Union? It was plainly a stall. Sooner or later Britain must make the decision itself: inside Europe...
...exodus of some highly-placed University officers compliments the faculty's interest and competence in public affairs. Such professorial excellence may not parallel a first-rate undergraduate system of education, however. This point has been raised frequently in these columns for the last year; with the exception of the moribund Student Council Committee on Educational Policy, the CRIMSON is the only organized undergraduate voice for curricular criticism...
...Toronto barber, Thomson at 24 had managed to accumulate, and then blow, a small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read hem and reached his conclusion: "Jeez, here's nothing in them...
Plank believes the U.N. is handicapped by the Soviet attempt to "make as much trouble as possible and is almost moribund as an effective instrument of world politics...
...immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...