Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Poulton brought into court certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...
...There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness, by the indifference of many friends and the blindness of others," lugubriously and correctly predicted the year of her death...
...fatal line consisted of four creosoted poles, invisible in the dark since they were unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co. some time ago. No one formally notified the airport of the obstruction, but the gang of nine men on the job worked under bright headlights from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that...
...background of the War and Revolution-a chronicle which carries Ivan luckily through the slaughter of the Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...
...always first come best served. Some places and times there are no rules. In some cases there are, but brave is the man who attempts to describe just what they are when they are. To err when speaking on this subject would be fatal...