Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most suggestive of a new approach to the problem of the causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar to the Laws of Nature and the Fourteen...
...latter to continue to buy raw materials in large quantities; that, if Britain could not improve her export trade, it would, despite the best intentions, be impossible for her to continue paying her U. S. War debt. The resultant economic situation, the Ambassador thought, would not be fatal to the U. S., "but it will be unpleasant." From this, he argued that it was in the interests of the prosperity of all peoples to follow "the Christian doctrine of the Golden Rule," which is "when you come down to it, the only true 'real politik' in the philosophy...
...Made it fatal to walk in a swamp...
Until the fatal eighth, Barbee was master of the situation, and in spite of the Andover hitting, was seldom in trouble. Linscott got two of the Freshman runs and handled himself well in the field...
...that respect of the pupil for his tutor is fatal to both...