Word: mortalities
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...melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which its pursuer sometimes ate to keep his strength up. After a flight that sometimes lasted several days, the bear finally sank down in mortal exhaustion and submitted to the man's spear...
...students involved in the killing were immediately suspended by the college. On June 1, Doxsee, accused of "causing mortal injuries," was fined $500, and given a one year suspended sentence. The same day, Phinney announced that Felton would figure in another trial in the fall...
...money came, the donor was lavishly thanked: "Your name was in every mouth; some wondered at your magnificence, some praised your exalted virtues . . . and indeed, that you are but mortal is our bitterest thought." But if, after the death of a longtime benefactor, no gift was forthcoming from his estate, Oxford's agents tried a sterner approach: they badgered the executors. Sometimes they hinted that the executors had misappropriated gifts meant for the university; sometimes they went to court...
...widely advertised and believed. Few knew then that the Kaiser had recently tried to incite Russia against Victoria's Empire. In a secret message to the Czar, the Kaiser said: "Russia alone could paralyze the power of England and deal it, if need be, a mortal blow." If the Czar would order his armies against India, the Kaiser would guarantee that no European nation rose to Britain's defense...
Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion and violation of exchange controls. The prosecution charged that I. Hennig shipped ?76,254 ($213,511) worth of rough diamonds to Tangier and attached false invoices to make it appear that the gems were consigned to a Tangier merchant. Actually, the gems were bought by U.S. merchants, among them Manhattan...