Word: stagnant
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...added remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university ought primarily to maintain its scholastic standard. The proposal of the Graduate's Magazine, if adopted, would injure the University's reputation and attract a group sure to be stagnant and barren of any real worth other than financial...
...males are provided with bushy antennae projecting from the head on each side. These are the organs of hearing by which the male recognizes the presence of the female somewhere near. The males do not bite. The females do, to get nutrition for the eggs which they lay in stagnant pools...
Improvement, Small but perceptible was an improvement in employment noted by the U. S. Department of Labor for September. More jobs, longer hours were found in coal mining, shoemaking, tobacco production, textile manufactures. Stagnant as the month preceding were the steel and motor industries...
...grown-up: "Would you care to stay in one place for a week or more without some change of surroundings?" The answer would almost invariably be the negative. No one cares to stay permanently fixed. When water stands in one place for a while, it becomes stagnant and unfit. Just 30 with the human mind...
...months ago last week John Barry Ryan Jr., strapping young grandson of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, became a newspaper publisher (TIME, July 14). He bought the stagnant New Jersey Freie Zeitung, created also the Newark Free Press, believed he could make the latter a big enough success to lift the former. Last week the Free Press was no more. It, and the Freie Zeitung (which continued publication) were in receivers' hands, admittedly insolvent...