Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap, they are the favorite food of Simba, the lion...
Concluded Dr. Fishberg: "Why do most of those infected with tubercle bacilli get along very well for the rest of their lives while a comparatively few develop a disabling or fatal form of the disease? The day we find the reasons for this fact we may be on the way to eradicating tuberculosis...
...Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing, as they do now, two nearly equal, mighty, and issueless machines for the nomination for president by political bosses, a split in the Democratic party would be inevitably fatal...
...Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation. He made one of his shortest speeches: "I thank you for the reception accorded me." No references were made in the adjectivally enthusiastic press to the recent fatal fighting between natives and U. S. Marines...
...with heart disease; found that out of 63 cases, 13 suffered from fibrillation. This they reported to the New York Academy of Medicine a fortnight ago. Last week Dr. Weiss continued his efforts to find means of preventing the rustling. The disease so far is uncontrollable and almost always fatal. Last week, also, he was preparing a report on another discovery-that when a case of pernicious anemia improves, the sufferer's heart spontaneously returns to normal size. Heretofore doctors had known that anemic hearts grow large (apparently to drive the thinned blood more copiously through the body...