Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hadn't read her Master's foreward. She seems, from the beginning, to be "aware" that she is Iseult. She is also too heavily made up for so pretty a young lady and actually is more attractive when the lipstick is gone, and she nears her death...
Arthur Sampsan, erstwhile publicity director for the H.A.A. was tickled to death by the showing, and let his enthusiasm run for inches of newsprint. His analysis, from the Monday Herald, in part...
Cloveland's batting Indians loosed a searing home run barrage behind fivehit pitching by Lefty Gene Bearden to crush the Boston Red Sex, 8 to 3, yesterday in a "sudden death" play off for the American League pennant...
...kind of story that Eleanor Medill Patterson, who liked her news on the dramatic side, would have enjoyed telling-on someone else. Her death had plunged her Washington Times-Herald and the seven employees to whom she left it, into a confusing legal tangle, with overtones of violence...
What kills the passengers when an airplane crashes? to the nonscientific layman, that question might seem on a par with "What causes death to the fly when a flyswatter mashes it?'' But the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory was interested in the scientific, not the commonsensible answer. If there is no fire, the Cornell investigators decided, the leading cause of death is cracked skulls. So the laboratory, backed by the Navy, set out to learn how a human skull cracks, and how to prevent it. Last week the experimenters described some of their findings...