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Word: fatalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed, we possess a great deal of fertile earth, and we have more than sufficient of it to stuff the mouths of all who would dare pass from talk of fatal encounters to action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beside the Quiet Don | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...younger, he and Wilbur had worked as a team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Begetter of an Age | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Suppose we decide that $6 billion is enough. I don't believe that would prove absolutely fatal to the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: All or Nothing | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Salarino: Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wracked on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous fiat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Low Island | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...changed: "While our churches are metaphorically if not literally failing into ruin, the disturbing and restoring presence of the living God is becoming an experienced reality amid the ruins. ... In the U.S.A., it seems to me, the cushion of religious efficiency and prosperity is Still doing its comfortable, but fatal, work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Fatal Cushion | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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