Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity" of the court maintained at any price...
...Glenn Frank of Wisconsin, ever acute to the needs of modern education, cites the scarcity of great teachers as one of the fatal weaknesses of American universities. In this deficiency, he says, lies the source of much of the calumny which has come to be heaped on higher education. The giants of teaching are gone and in their place have left an army of efficient but mechanistic instructors who are excellently equipped as far as their technical knowledge is concerned but who lack the spirit which characterized such men as--to cite Harvard examples--Eliot and Norton...
...Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library now rises as a testimonial to a victim of that fatal voyage. Dominating the Yard, it stands as a mute but forceful tribute to two very sacred ideals: the memory of a son, and the love of good books. Within its walls are stored the volumes which that man loved and though its portals pass the feet of others who share his reverence and who week what he sought. It is not a mausoleum: It is the expression of an undying spirit...
...heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration...
...Lincoln. (Stanton, member of the fatal box-party on the night of April 14, 1865, said it in the little house across the street from Ford's theatre just after Lincoln died...