Word: fatalism
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...parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
...fourth fatal B-36 crash since the $3,500,000 bombers went into service almost three years ago. Three of the crew members aboard had survived the crash of a B-36 which, crippled by ice and fire, was ditched off British Columbia a year...
...snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness-a pure Caspar Milqueghost-a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything...
...stride. He practices interminably, frets over his game, the antagonism of a sport columnist, his victories over a happy-go-lucky friend (Dennis O'Keefe) resembling the real-life Jimmy Demaret (who, like Golfers Sam Snead and Gary Middlecoff, plays himself in the movie). Then comes the near-fatal crash...
...hundred Dunster and Leverett House men sent a petition to Governor Dever Monday asking that a traffic signal be placed at the corner. A fatal accident Friday night, the second serious accident in two months, instigated the action...