Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ethos or collective disposition of the U. S. people is dead set against foreign alliances. The fatal smell of 1917 is still too heavy in the air. On the other hand, the U. S. people will buy almost anything -from a piece of the power business to the world's biggest breadline-and 74% of the citizens canvassed in a recent Gallup poll were eager to buy a big navy, the kind of Big Navy that Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for two weeks...
...knew that an epidemic of trichinosis had befallen the huge household. The sausages taken from their North Dakota home contained embryos of the lint-like worms, one-eighth of an inch long, which cause this widespread (17,000,-ooo estimated U. S. victims), occasionally painful and exhausting, although seldom fatal disease. Cooking the sausages well would kill the embryos and prevent infection. But Mrs. Hoerner and neighbors who came in to help her as the family's epidemic spread, were in a hurry...
Fire. Seven thousand miles away in Washington, shocked by the line's second and by far most costly fatal accident,* Pan American's president, Juan Terry Trippe, sorrowfully announced: "Everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused...
...during the World War, when it was frequently a case of operate or see the patient die anyway. It is more successful nowadays, but the patient must have absolute rest until the stitches are absorbed and the tissue heals. Until then, any exertion may burst the seam, loosing a fatal spout of blood from the heart. Therefore Joe's nurse, wanting to leave the room for a moment, warned him not to move while she was gone. That was two days after Christmas...
...found nothing but the wreckage of dead bacteria. Whatever it was that killed them was able to pass in solution through a fine filter and then infect other colonies. Felix d'Herelle, a Canadian studying at France's Pasteur Institute, found that another kind of phage was fatal to the dysentery bacillus, and that dysentery patients treated with it showed improvement...