Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incapacity of White for a month or more during his convalescence, deale what may prove to be a fatal blow to Harvard's possibilities for victories over Yale on May 12 and 30, and for a win in the intercollegiate outdoor championship games to be played off in June...
...embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation on this knowledge...
While Heaven thus offered Consolation the earthy newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief...
...story of a young Scotchman who has talent, honesty, and courage, but the fatal weakness of indecision. Having failed in love and in his chosen career, he goes to India to retrieve his honor. There, on the Kashmir frontier, he faces his great test and, of course redeems himself in a rather heroic but thoroughly satisfactory fashion...
Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...