Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reference to Briton Hadden, Founder & Editor of TIME, who died aged 31 (TIME, March 11). Shortly before his fatal illness, Editor Hadden had been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...
...college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...
...Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last fall. "Motor," gasped Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said he would...
...politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper...
...recorded the number of fatal industrial accidents in New York State in June. It was a large statistic of its kind. Many a fatality had occurred in construction work. Among causes of deaths were: Motor vehicles, 24; trains, 13; elevators and hoists, 5; cranes and conveyors, 5: falling objects, 2; steam shovels, 2; falls. 25; handling of objects, 18; explosions, hot substances and electricity...