Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exeter's ball team is scarcely up to standard this year, the weakness in the pitching staff having proved fatal in several games, although the infield, led by Captain Barry at first base is tight and hard hitting. They were defeated by Holy Cross 1923 8-7, and also dropped a close game to Worcester Academy, but defeated the Dartmouth Freshmen...
...chief arguments used against him are that he was gathered wisdom from experience abroad as well as at home--but perhaps a fatal objection; that he lacks the qualification which Professor Hart placed first among the qualifications of General Wood, he is not a Harvard man--a serious but again not a fatal failing; and that he "straddles" because he cannot be definitely placed in any of the existing political parties. The traditional lines of party cleavage have for the most part become obliterated. Mr. Hoover does not "straddle' when he says that he cannot announce his adherence...
...United States, if it is to exist at all, must be what it has always been, a government of all the people, and it must be conducted and sustained by the representatives chosen by the people to make the laws of the United States. Nothing could be more fatal to the ordered freedom which is thoroughly American in its conception and purpose than to have any organization of a minority of the people or of some particular occupation or class undertake to control the government of all the people. That is the road which has been followed in Russia...