Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received large quantities of water lived a little longer, but died, like the baby, in convulsions; 3) dogs which were given moderate amounts of salt and sugar solutions to maintain their "blood chemistry," and which received "repeated large transfusions of blood in addition . . . were able to survive the otherwise fatal shock." The doctors came to the conclusion that a stagnant circulation must be stimulated with extreme delicacy, that blood transfusions were absolutely necessary...
...last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...
...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...
...received from the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, new conducting its thirty-third annual Christmas seal sale, sheets of the well-known stamps through the mails. Since "tuberculosis is no longer the white man's plague," part of the proceeds will go towards education of the public about other fatal diseases such as cancer and syphilis...
...senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet, a man who does not take oxygen will become sleepy and depressed, or hilarious and pugnacious. At 25,000 feet, he may droop into a pleasant, possibly fatal coma. A pilot flying at 15,000 to 18,000 feet for four or five hours may feel well enough to ignore his cumbersome oxygen mask. But when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness may ground a flier for over...