Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Make way for the Michigan Wolverines and the fatal afternoon of October 12, a real judgment day for 1940 Harvard football Tom Harmon, undoubtedly one of the three or four greatest runnings backs of all time, will provide the acid test. Cracking over a guard, slinging a touchdown pass, or skirting a distant flank are all in the day's work for this miracle man wearing the Maize and Blue. And he has the pleasing faculty of picking up anywhere from seven to 28 points during a Saturday matinee...
...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...
...bullets and as glaring as star shells, but to those parts of the world where an opinion can still be aired the trial was not so much that of individuals as of a way of life which bred disunity, which was so riddled with corruption and sabotaged by fatal living that it made a toboggan slide for ruin...
...concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...
John T. Flynn, chairman of the Keep America Out of War Congress, who saw the U. S. walking "the last mile in the fatal descent into war," proclaimed that the President would be impeached if it were not for Congress' "long record of servile submission to the executive...