Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin, appearing with milk on his mouth, solemnly reminds her that it is a sign someone will kiss him before morning, Phyllis volunteers. "Sometime later," begs Martin, "when you tuck me in bed.'' Those who know their Morley will recall that this tryst is forestalled by the fatal accident to Phyllis' children and by the importunities of Joyce, who has not grown up either and who persuades Martin to go away before something dreadful happens. James Bell, who sent shivers down audiences' spines when he performed his ghastly march to the electric chair in The Last...
...system would relieve professors of the onus which attends bi- and tri-weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education, "the transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's without its passing through the mind of either...
...have run Cuba in corruption ever since it first gained independence; the liberal party, also with political pretentious: the A. B. C., consisting chiefly of young professional and business men who want a new deal for their country, and believe that any compromise with the politicians would be fatal, but who are themselves divided into extremists and moderates. The students are at the extreme left with a plan for procedure not essentially different from that of the A. B. C., though slightly more radieal. The result is that San Martin heads a minority government, a virtual dictatorship of the students...
...good way to recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned rather with truths that hope for acceptance than with truth." Still, Castor says it is an unpleasant load off his mind, and I am inclined to agree with...
This year Casey has retained a squad of 57, which is considerable larger than usual. Norman Fradd, director of Physical Education, has been giving the entire squad daily exercises to get the men in condition and toughen them up, in order to avoid the injuries that were so fatal to the 1932 team. The first scrimmage was held on Tuesday and a second one yesterday afternoon...