Word: incurability
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...letter then recounted how the patients of Herbert Barker, famed "bone setter," "suffered terrible agony under his treatment" until a practitioner, Dr. Axham, though realizing that he would incur the anger of the General Medical Council thought it his duty to offer his services as an anesthetist. . . . The Council found him guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' and deprived him of the right to practice medicine...
Most of these crimes incur a fine of $100 to $500 and from one to six months in jail. Transporting liquor by vehicle can cost up to $1,000 and two years incarceration. In nearly all cases the second offense is costlier. Purchasing liquor is as criminal as selling...
TIME, conscious that it would incur censure by so doing, nevertheless published Miss Taylor's probable age because it believed the matter to be of news value...
...possibility of the Sterling Bill's being passed is another matter. No politician wants to incur the terrible wrath of the press, a wrath already rising at the suggestion that second class mail rates be somewhat increased. The wrath of this or that great city daily may be endured; but to provoke the almost universal enmity of the press, both urban and rustic, would be all but suicidal. The press wieldeth a mighty club. Congress may not lightly tread heavily upon its toes...
...fact is that one can find among the 44,000 living Harvard men, individuals of every conceivable type and tendency. They are of all degrees of intellectuality, high and low. We know some of them whose English will never incur criticism by reason of its Shakespearian qualities. Harvard graduates, like those of other universities, run the whole gamut of civilized mankind. We have never seen any real indication that one type predominates over a thousand others. The typical Harvard man and the Harvard manner are both of them a myth. Some day, we hope, the public imagination will forget...