Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatal day, while the little Panay anchored in the Yangtze 27 miles above Nanking, she was boarded by a Japanese officer and several soldiers who, if they were not aware of her identity when they came aboard, were in no misapprehension when they left. At 1130 p. m. a squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke...
...painful and sometimes fatal diver's affliction called "the bends" is caused by bubbles of nitrogen formed in the blood during a too quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
...actually fly each year and of these barely 5% take extra air insurance at present rates. Nevertheless, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce charts show that while eight years ago airplanes flew 125,000 miles, today they fly 1,050,000 between accidents and 7,330,000 miles between fatal accidents. That insurance companies can now bet $5,000 to two bits against a passenger being killed or crippled on a flight of some 800 miles, is one of the best pieces of publicity which U. S. airlines have ever...
Five hundred milligrams of nicotine, if taken in one dose, are fatal. Anyone who smokes a package of cigarets a day breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers...
...picture, needs no such furtive blurbing. It is refreshing, impudent fun: a buoyant cinema making faces at its precise old aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia...