Word: mortalities
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...crew, are afraid to go to sea with Mr. Adams." Last week Mr. Adams, a mild-looking man of 39 with a Southern drawl, arrived in Manhattan, was arrested and taken before a U. S. Commissioner. He explained: "I shot the man because I was in terror -mortal terror, a condition I was never in during the War. I fired one shot and then another not knowing the first had hit him in the head." Mr. Adams was held without bail on a charge of murder on the high seas...
...back of every Southern white man's head lies a mortal dread that some night, somehow, some crazy black man will lay hands on his wife or daughter, rape her, kill her, or both. For the white man, eternal vigilance over his womenfolk is impractical, impossible. And such crimes as he mortally fears do happen. One happened near Birmingham, Ala. last week...
...swordfishing been so successful in the same waters. *Last week, six miles off Sea Bright, N. J., fishermen Harry Munson and George Swenson beheld what few men have seen -a fight to death between a shark and a swordfish. Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling in. Shooting out of the blue deep came the swordfish. The shark turned to flee but it was too late. For 35 minutes...
Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...
...Brooks labored over the diplomas he looked up and said: "I have tried to teach them how to live. I wish now to teach them how to die." He sent a last message to be read in morning chapel: "Carry on. Men are mortal and pass away, but the ideals upon which Baylor University is built will never...