Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the so-called "duel" at the Los Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape...
Died. Count Francis Harrach, 67, aide-de-camp to the late Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand; in Vienna. At Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, Count Harrach stood on the left running-board of the Archduke's automobile, unsuccessfully attempted to shield him from Gavrilo Princip's fatal bullet...
...attacking Whites. Fortunately for Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet and chief umpire in the Hawaiian games, the sinking of his flagship the Pennsylvania by a submarine was only simulated. Unfortunately for Lieut. Commander John F. Gillon and his mechanic, Glen Beal, the fatal plunge of their plane into the sea was not simulated. Two other planes cracked up off Maui early in May, two landplanes flopped into the shallows off French Frigate Shoal, other crashes were rumored, none fatal...
...cute" would be fatal to a serious word and "jimple" is simply senseless...
...infants, such applications are not free from danger, for experience has shown that the oil may be drawn into the lung and give rise to a fatal pneumonia. For this reason most pediatric services now prohibit the use of oily substances in the noses of infants under two years of age.''-Dr. John Levi Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, in a warning to his community last week...