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Word: lethally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

When airplanes crash, pilot error or faulty maintenance usually takes the blame for the spectacular carnage. In train wrecks, generally less lethal, the same factors apply. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Bad Weekend | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...radioactivity produced by the Bikini bombs," Dr. Teller points out, "was detected within about one week in the United States. It was weak, com pletely harmless. . . . But there is a threshold beyond which radioactivity has lethal effects. . . . Sufficiently strong radio activity will kill all living tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New, Improved Attack | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Hall to observe the diamond (60th) jubilee of an organization which led a major revolution without splitting an infinitive, breaking a teacup or exploding anything more lethal than an economic theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Easy Does It | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Night without Dawn | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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