Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this country are trying to do the opposite. Using the time worn militaristic slogan of "Preserve Peace by preparing for war", they are raising money to buy two thousand aeroplanes, a majority of which are to be sent immediately to Manchuria. Their ultimate aim is to drop the one fatal bomb on Tokio, thus gaining pieces rather than peace...
...benefits to be expected from use of the ... extract lie principally in improved appetite, improved muscle tone and bettered feeling of general well being of patients who are ambulatory or are not too far advanced toward a fatal termination of the disease...
...sportsman's life is inevitably connected with risk. Often it is the risk itself that makes the particular event attractive to stout hearted men. But a true lover of the game is never fool-hardy, he never invites that risk. When mere chance then converts hard play into a fatal injury men pause to praise the play that cost him life and damn the fate that robbed...
Stated differently, the difficulty is that the specialist does not deal with general ideas. Constant thought in the terms of one field lead him to accept unquestioningly fundamental principles. But this uncritical attitude is fatal. For it is exactly in this vagueness about fundamental principles that lie the gravest dangers to modern civilization. The twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation...
...retention is a dangerous procedure The retention causes a back pressure against the kidneys, which adjust themselves to the abnormal condition. Perspiration removes sufficient water from the body to maintain a satisfactory state of invalidism. Catheterization suddenly relieves the kidneys of back pressure, causes kidney injuries and, usually, a fatal kidney bleeding. In aged persons is this fact especially...