Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, the Republican leader, Mr. Tilson, announced that he would leave the fate of the measure to the Steering Committee. Although there is apparently much opposition, Representative White of Kansas reported to the House a similar resolution on the day that the Senate passed that offered by Senator Norris. The White resolution differs from that of the Senate principally in fixing Jan. 4 for the assembling of Congress, and Jan. 24 for the inauguration of the President...
...Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory for life, that it can create the character of life, for it is not bound to select its creeds from momentary enthusiasms but can range the whole field of knowledge and the whole history...
Another expedition is being planned now in the hope that the fate which has met countless climbers will be vanquished...
...never trust to Cambridge fate...
...Asked if he had any final requests to make, he replied that he had none; and in respect to the ill-fortune that he was about to suffer, said: 'What you are about to do is merely my fate overtaking...