Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They added: "A first attack of coronary thrombosis rarely is fatal and the mortality of subsequent attacks is only moderate, if a regime of prolonged bed rest and limited diet is employed and the injudicious use of drugs, such as digitalis and nitroglycerine, avoided. Consequently the pessimism with which coronary artery thrombosis has been regarded seems to us no longer justified...
Died. Nina Van Zandt Spies 74, "proxy wife" of August Spies, one of the four radicals hanged for agitating Chicago's fatal Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 of a heart attack, in her tumbledown Chicago boardinghouse. A beauteous Vassar graduate and social worker she met Spies in jail, married him in absentia by going through a ceremony with Henry Spies, the prisoner's brother...
...Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England's queen Victoria, who doubtless acquired her taint from her German ancestors...
...commissions, necessarily called and being called into existence by the increasing complexities of our modern business and political affairs, are permitted gradually to extend their powers by encroachments-even petty encroachments-upon the fundamental rights, privileges and immunities of the people, we shall in the end, while awaiting the fatal consequences of a supreme autocracy, become submerged by a multitude of minor invasions of personal rights, less destructive but no less violative of constitutional guarantees...
...favor was more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh...