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Word: fatal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it is fatal in 90% to 95% of untreated cases, kala-azar can nearly always be cured with antimony compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Souvenir | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Harbury, a graduate student in Applied Physics, was working in a field which requires high voltage but relatively low current. Shocks are somewhat frequent in the electronics laboratories but ordinarily low currents do not prove fatal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Electrocuted in Physics Lab Experiment | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...absurdity is not the University's. Can it be that international organizations, national and local governments, other public institutions, and industries cannot use more experts? Shall a complex world let laymen handle so many of its plans? We may find that it is a costly business, possibly a fatal business, to make our universities practice "negative guidance," to limit the supply of experts, and then to find out, too late, that we needed them after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Surplus in Scholars | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: In the Anteroom | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Novel | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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