Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technocracy" was a diagnosis of the economic structure allegedly based on scientific calculation. "Technocracy" was also an obscurely defined cure for an otherwise fatal condition. TIME asked for the No. 1 Technocrat's credentials and reported what it found...
Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older brother, owner of North Wood Farm and affianced to Avis. When Scotland Yard's Detective Midwinter arrives on the scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might...
...Passed a bill to pay Mexico a $30.000 indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...
...took it up at the Villacoublay airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily U. S. autogyro manufacturers pointed out last week that the fatal machine was a distant, experimental cousin of their product...
...students are convinced "that the primary cause of increased tuberculosis mortality among young women lies in biological rather than environmental factors. For physiological reasons which are not abnormal nor pathological in any way, young women are, always have been, and very likely will continue to be more susceptible to fatal tuberculosis than are other groups of the population...