Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatal illness of William the Conqueror, who died on Sept. 9, 1087, was finally diagnosed last week. After studying the records, Frances Tomlinson Gardner of the University of California Medical School's department of medical history and bibliography decided that the man who conquered England was conquered by peritonitis. Previous historians had been content with vague references to "internal injuries...
Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...
...been lost; others have only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity College, from which he was expelled for his subversive opinions...
...Dewey, the pollsters' choice, knew he had to get out in front at the ballot box as well. Any early setback in the GOPresidential sweepstakes might well prove fatal. Last week, on the heels of Harold Stassen's departure, the Dewey machine rumbled into New Hampshire under a full head of steam, aiming for the nation's first presidential primary on March...
...lancet with a special biting end ; with it he hoped to cut out the scar tissue that forms on the heart valves of many rheumatic fever victims, and blocks their action. Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty Lee reached Charleston's Roper Hospital...