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Word: fatal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most miraculous miracle concerns Professor Emmett, a neurotic, misanthropic entomologist whose maladjusted marriage drives him to suicide. Reincarnated as a termite, he successfully resists the herd and fatal mating instincts of fellow ants, saves the U. S. from a terrific invasion of stone-eating termites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun from Hollywood | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...therefore going to make an experiment which may be fatal politically. . . . I am going to be compelled to restrict the amounts which I can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plea for Honesty | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move. The infected scalpel in his pocket pierced the child's abdomen. In spite of immediate attention, two days later Dr. McCreedy's daughter was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor's Tragedy | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...periods of five years. This would allow young graduates a five-year trial period in which to find themselves, would make it necessary for specialists to secure separate licenses to work in their chosen fields. Since they would have to take periodical examinations, doctors would find it fatal to neglect postgraduate study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Terrible Old Reactionary | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...surpassed what warbling she attempted, is going to leave the band to marry its manager. Louise Tobin, Harry James' very pretty wife, who sang extremely well with Bobby Hackett, is going to handle vocals from now on . . . Artie Shaw, who has been suffering from a very rare and usually fatal blood disease, is now definitely out of danger and is recuperating on the Coast . . . Strong rumor has it that Bea Wain, Larry Clinton's song stress, is going to leave at the end of her contract to do solos. This is supported by the fact that Larry has signed Marion...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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