Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Commander Rosendahl, senior officer of the survivors, declared that Commander Lansdowne had not protested against the fatal flight, that the disaster was an inevitable accident. He closed with the declaration: "Although we are survivors of one of the worst air accidents that has ever occurred, we nevertheless have not lost faith in rigid airships, and are still of the opinion that rigid airships are of a great deal of value for naval and commercial purposes as well...
...suppose, on the other hand, that the doctor was honest, but that the pharmacist, unable to read what had been prescribed, made some fatal mistake? And who could read a rigmarole like that...
Martin, the Terrier captain and goal guard, is regarded as one of the best cage guardians among the New England teams, although he has been in the habit of going down the ice and leaving the net unguarded at times. This may prove a fatal error against the Crimson short passing game...
Several officers who served aboard the ill-fated Shenandoah testified that the fatal flight was voluntarily undertaken, that the ship was in good condition, and that they did not regard it as unfit...
...universities, therefore, are peculiarly inappropriate fields for military training and for the intrusive presence of a military bureaucracy. We Americans would have said this of any country in the world. There is no virtue of our own which makes us immune to a militarism which has played so fatal a role in Europe...