Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
Officers of McCook Field, Dayton, forgot their triumph in adding endurance to their list of speed, climb and altitude records, on seeing the fatal crash of a heavily loaded Martin bomber. Their guests of a few weeks, Captain W. B. Lawson and Sergeant Bidwell, of Langley Field, Va., Sergeant W. H. Rowland, of Selfridge Field, Mich., and Hugh M. Smith, of the Bureau of Standards, left McCook on a flight to Langley. In the face of a head wind, Captain Lawson-a distinguished war pilot- could not clear a bridge across the Miami at the edge of the field...
...office declared that " the prosecution is reluctantly obliged to admit justice cannot be obtained in Williamson county. No impartial jury can be obtained to try the men responsible. Witnesses, reliable and trustworthy, at great risk of personal violence, have courageously testified to what they beheld on that fatal day, only to be impeached by witnesses who plainly were interested in the defense and who clearly were testifying falsely...
...existence of a religious revival beyond a shadow of a doubt. Irreligion had its greatest chance in the last generation, when far-reaching social, educational, and economic changes dealt a heavy blow to the old religious dogmas. Yet, in spite of these events that many people thought would be fatal to religion, it has gained a firmer held than ever before...
...enforcement of prohibition in Pennsylvania, by the Republican Governor Pinchot contrasts pointedly with the New York attitude of "hands off" sponsored by the Democrats. To nominate Smith or Edwards would be to link the Democrats with the wet interests, nationally, and the strongest factions agree that this would be fatal. Even Senator Underwood, probably the ablest of all Democratic possibilities, is meeting with strenuous opposition because of his unfortunate "wet" tendencies...