Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long foreign policy debate which had hinged on the Spanish problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet had warned that a "question of force" might soon arise. M. Daladier said that events were "racing toward a climax," that the "hour of peril" was approaching. But the debate showed such a fatal division of opinion on exactly what constituted a peril that France seemed paralyzed...
Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn...
...first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed up by the exercise, ached for a real workout, and when the fatal suggestion was made, "Let's take San Francisco-," it was the end of Orestes' career...
Heart Lesions. Atherosclerosis (fatty elevations in the arteries supplying the heart and brain) is frequently fatal. Ever since he graduated from medical school at the age of 22, Dr. Alfred Steiner of New York City's Department of Hospitals has been interested in atherosclerosis. Last week young Dr. Steiner told how he had cured rabbits of this disease. First he produced atherosclerosis in ten rabbits by feeding them cholesterol (a pearly substance found in all animal fats). He then mixed small amounts of diluted choline, a ptomaine, with the rabbits' carrots. Result: after two months...
Influenced by Henry James, Miss Richardson set out to write the first realistic novel probing the subconscious thoughts of a woman, a bold, original work that should be the feminine counterpart of Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Its fatal flaw showed from the start: a reticence as amazing as Proust's and Joyce's candor. Her heroine, Miriam Henderson, is the daughter of a bankrupt upper middle-class family, restless, chauvinistic, anti-American, who leaves home when she is 17, teaches in girls' schools in Germany and London...