Word: lethal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four of the major U. S. airlines with his contention that the logical metropolitan air terminal for mail, express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark...
Usually Nurse Toppan's victims were her patients, but she had a habit of giving them less-than-lethal doses to prolong their illnesses if she liked working for them. One day in 1901, her old friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after dinner. Nurse Toppan accompanied the body to the Davis home at Cataumet. When people came with flowers (Nurse Toppan later said), "I wanted to say to them: 'You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you.'" Sure enough, within 40 days...
There has been much erroneous information published about Lethal Gas Chambers and this method of execution, but I did expect TIME to keep their records straight. My company has designed and manufactured Lethal Gas Chambers for all of the six states mentioned except Nevada and Arizona and including Oregon which was omitted...
...there is an effect. Taking caffein pills without doctor's orders might well lead to insomnia and general irritability. This certainly is no way to finish an evamination, nor is it the easy path toward resumption of studies. On the contrary, the ensuing let-down may prove scholastically lethal...
...Angeles Humane Department announced that unless help came soon the animals would be mercifully killed in lethal gas chambers. At that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought...