Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with all the round-eyed solemnity of a child's tale, and it was never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that reason...
...Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention to be held in St. Paul on June 17. His reply was that "the June 17 convention will not command the support of the farmers, the workers or other Progressives, because those who have had charge of the arrangements for this convention have committed the fatal error of making the Communists an integral part of their organization...
...assailant fired four revolver shots at the Chancellor, one of which took effect; after, he turned the weapon upon himself with effect thought likely to prove fatal...
...conductor for electrical currents. They can be directed, and it is possible that a method will be devised for sending high-frequency "lightning" such as was produced in the Pittsfield laboratories by Faccioli (TIME, June 18, 1923) over an ultraviolet track. Such a combination would indeed be a fatal ray. Meanwhile, a prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other...
Safety First campaigns and horrible examples have informed all except those who will not learn that one of the products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages have been the cause of a rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high...