Word: fatal
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Rule 1. The candidate must have a solid American background-as humble as possible. As birthplace, a log cabin is best, a farm nearly as good, the combination practically irresistible. For parents, the watchword is poor but honest. In the family background, a horse thief is fatal, a millionaire nearly...
International Opinion. In its appeal to internationalism, the Keynes proposal struck a broader, more philosophic note than the American proposal. By emphasizing the power of veto, the White plan suggests a fatal Anglo-American split, which would doom any plan...
...January 1846 universal peace seemed assured at last: Biela's comet was about to wipe out the world. But, as comet and Earth rushed toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book...
...Infectious enteritis, a not necessarily fatal intestinal disease, is characterized by fever, emaciation, diarrhea (but not always). Sanitation and isolation are the methods of control. There is no specific treatment, but feeding oats soaked with salt water sometimes gives good results...
About the peace he is more deeply concerned. It would be a fatal mistake, he feels, to impose upon the Japanese a form of government "for which they have no instinct, no wish, and no preparation. . . . The peace must be thoughtful, the conditions wise, and Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little...