Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...
...long as a man can easily keep his internal body temperature at 98.6° he is comfortable. In illness he can develop a "low" temperature of 102° and suffer no appreciable harm. A prolonged ''high'' temperature of 105° is usually fatal. External temperature of 104° produces heat strokes if the individual's heat control system fails to operate efficiently. American Radiator Co., which has gone into temperature control scientifically, finds that a normal human being in good health can stand 157° with 15% humidity up to 45 minutes. Thereafter the man becomes irritable, restless and drowsy...
...sentence, but all three were cast into damp Austrian dungeons where they died in a few years of consumption. Papa Semiz, however, has lived on and so have some of the three youths' accomplices, notably Victor Rupchich, a newspaper editor who was back in the cafe at the fatal hour last week for a glass of scorching slivovitz...
...stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...signed an order for his dismissal on the grounds that under his administration "hot oil" shipments had jumped to 90,000 bbl. per day. Officer Parker, long connected with the Commission as an engineer and supervisor, did not take his discharge lying down. Cried he: "Apparently I made the fatal mistake of firing political favorites of all three commissioners. . . . Every time I fired one, some one of the three commissioners would put him back at work, with resultant weakening of the morale of the entire organization...