Word: fatale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Advised Psychologist Carroll Cornelius Pratt of Harvard: "The crammer should be sure that he goes to sleep immediately on putting down his books; an excursion to the restaurant with a newspaper might prove to be a fatal interruption in the cramming process. . . . He should take care that there are no violent changes in his conduct or thoughts...
...through the wrapping of Mr. Anderson's verse which give value to "The Masque of Kings". But for the most part it lies smothered beneath a flood of words, words which for the most part are not very beautiful and mean very little. Mr. Anderson seems to have a fatal facility for blank verse, a mechanical dexterity which has here betrayed him. The tense hardness that his verse achieved at times in "Winterest" is missing; his lines are flabby and prosaic...
...Moore with an emphasis which suggested it took effort to decline to believe. "I decline to believe," vehemently continued the Acting Secretary of State, "that any such adventure in suicide is imminent! On the contrary, I am convinced that the leaders of those nations, knowing what a perhaps fatal blow another extensive war would be to the fabric of European civilization, will find some common-sense method of adjusting all controversies. Of course all the world would be glad to see the civil strife in Spain wholly localized...
...exists for the pursuit and dissemination of learning. If it is not a place where men may seek the truth with open minds it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for the truth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictions are placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find...
...transported a total of 1,140,000 passengers, of whom 45 lost their lives. . . . Translated into passenger miles, it is possible to fly in a scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h. for 17 years, one month, three weeks and 21 hours before meeting with a fatal accident, according to official statistics of leading casualty and surety companies. These same figures show that a person has been approximately twice as safe this year on a regular airline than when he is driving his own automobile...