Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned Columbia professor's theory that one would refuse to eat a worm for a thousand dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied his fountain pen into his soup and tossed the mixture off, smacking his lips, while waitresses gulped and sprinted...
...last things Test Pilot James H. ("Jimmy") Collins did before his final, fatal power dive was to list the crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
...fought on the opposite side of the trenches during those fatal and hellish years, I profoundly regret that the Road to War comes, alas, just one month and 18 years too late...
Priest Coughlin's much-heralded first appearance, in Detroit last month, was generally accounted a near-flop (TIME, May 6). Prepared for an overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
Measles, to Eskimos a strange and fatal disease, killed 50% of the natives at Point Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry...