Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb...
...catalogue and the Alumni Directory cannot be appreciated as long as they continue to make their regular and flawless appearance. Only by their want could the University arrive at a full sense of its dependence on them. Nowhere might the danger of divided responsibility and confused commands be more fatal. These dangers the appointment of Mr. Bailey to his new positions may confidently he expected to obviate. Mr. Bailey's extensive experience in newspaper writing and editing combined with the sole responsibility given him for the work he has undertaken may furthermore be taken as an assurance of continuity, coordination...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with its efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...
...although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...
...reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...