Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sensational prophecies" have insisted that the effects of radiation (on the heredity carriers called genes) would produce a race of monsters. Nothing to worry about there, said the Surgeon General's office. The Army Medical Corps is confident that since irradiation is usually fatal to developing embryos, "the result . . . would probably be a higher rate of abortion and miscarriage...
...that a Shakespeare revival gets as high praise as Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's "Antony and Cleopatra." Reading the superlatives leaves anyone acquainted with Shakespeare or with acting standards in a quandary after he sees the play: how can he reconcile the rave reviews with the obvious and fatal shortcomings of the current production...
...anniversary of his father's birth and Masaryk had to read many letters of reproach and condemnation. Many of his friends, especially those from the West, did not try to understand him. They simply rejected him. And so, in a minute of great mental contradictions, he took to the fatal decision...
When civilizations are flourishing, historians have noted, religion is generally at a low ebb; when civilizations disintegrate, religion thrives. Does this mean that religion is a fatal parasite on civilization? Yes, suggested 18th Century Historian Edward Gibbon.* No, says Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: on the contrary, civilizations are merely steppingstones in the progress of religion...
Died. Emily Perkins Bissell, 86, originator and guiding spirit of the annual U.S. Christmas Seal drive, which netted $3,000 its first year (1907), more than $18 million last year, and over the years helped drop tuberculosis from first place among fatal diseases in the U.S. to sixth place; in Wilmington...