Word: moribundity
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Chicago Stock Exchange has been moribund of late years; trading has been provincial. Midwest security business that obviously should have been transacted in Chicago has gone to Manhattan. This has been a slough out of which R. Arthur Wood, elected president of the exchange last week, hopes to propel his organization...
...name of the man upon whom Professor Fraser of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, recently performed an experiment that required vivisection. Viscount Haldane, uncle of J. B. S. Haldane, had described the operation in the House of Lords when the topic of vivisection happened to come before that moribund body...
...agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing presence of the bedside throng...
Successful Insulin. Insulin (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923) has brought moribund diabetics out of coma, has prolonged the lives of sufferers several years. Complete cure of diabetes is not yet positive. Moderate doses of insulin are not permanently injurious. Yet a certain death definitely due to insulin over-dosage has frightened many persons. Quacks and some commercial biological chemists have misled slow-wits by exploiting substitutes. Some physicians have reported poor results from the true product because they had not learned its proper use. (Reported by Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y., after four years' verification...
Dorothy Karrick of Detroit went down after "statistician," and Mary Daniel of Hartford, Conn., after "valu-ing." Helen Fischer of Akron, Ohio, missed "moribund," the last word before "gladiolus...