Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cozzens's weakness in the fatal seventh inning gave Dartmouth the three runs she needed to win. Even then Harvard ought to have won, as a man reached third both in the eighth and in the ninth with one out, but failure to hit the ball on the part of those who followed lost the game...
Fletcher Dobyns followed on the negative. He said that his colleagues had already established the negative, but that their resources were not yet exhausted. After showing that there are fatal objections to the substitute which has been proposed for legal tenders and that the legal tender system possesses great, positive advantages that demand its retention, he dwelt upon the point that the principal objection that is urged against the legal tender system is without foundation...
...have shown you that there are fatal objections at the present to the issue of the entire volume of our paper currency by banks; that the legal tender system possesses the positive advantages of economy, and of relieving the strain upon the world's gold supply; and, lastly, that the central objection to this system is wholly without foundation...
...daughter the comedy merges into real tragedy. From an eccentricity, Harpagon's closeness becomes a vice which strains his family ties, and threatens to ruin the lives of his children. Neglected by their father they in turn forget their duty toward him. Finally, in spite of this fatal evil which is the heart of the story, the play is brought to the usual happy ending by devices no less artificial than illogical...
...conceal the movement Crittenden was sent far round, by the first road to attract Bragg's attention. And just here was the fatal mistake. The Union line was drawn out for 50 miles, over rough, hostile country. McCook, on the right, was several days' march distant from Thomas, in the centre. Now Bragg suddenly evacuated Chattanooga and appeared, with his whole force of 50,000, opposite Thomas. If he had attacked then, he would have won a complete victory...