Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy Yale victory. Now that Allen is out with a tendon pulled the last day of practice, the Harvard advocates are forced to deduct from their total the eight points which they had hoped he would win in the 440 and 220-yards dashes today, and the result is fatal to their chances of victory...
Chief interest centered around the match between Captain Pfaffmana and Kunkel. The latter, after dropping the first set, 6-2, staged a come-back, and ran the match out in the final sets, 6-4, 7-5. Captain Pfaffmann was not in best form, and he showed a fatal tendency to drive the ball out, and served doubles once on twice in the psychological turning points in the match...
...been working with a commission organized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in an attempt to find a remedy for influenza. Although he has not conquered influenza, he has found a serum for the most dreaded concomitant of that disease-the pneumonia which often put a fatal termination to a case of influenza...
...same time that British and American airmen were winging their way east and west in a race around the world Orville Wright was decorated on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his first flight. Reports of the frequent breakdowns of the fliers and news of the almost fatal adventures of the American leader indicate all too clearly, however, that man's conquest of the air is far from complete. In view of this conclusion, Major Hensley's prediction that before 1927 because of inadequate appropriations "we will have nothing to fly with" is of more than passing interest...
...When the vesicles break, a contagious liquid runs out, transmitting the disease from animal to animal. Man may contract it from intermediary objects, from direct contact with the infected animals, or from their milk. The disease often occurs among milkers and handlers of cattle. It is mild and not fatal...