Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
...McManus. He had lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That the conditions of this scientific drinking bout may be better understood--are the tipplers to clear their taste with Old Golds between cups...
...fresh from a small Middle-Western college and full of collegiate ideas, I carried an ornamented green slicker, a golf bag and a suit case, covered with loyalty stickers. I was the last word in the hey-dey of the times. No sooner than I had walked through the fatal Sallyport on the morning of July first, I was no longer the collegian but the poor struggling Plebe...
That there are relatively few fatal injuries in collegiate ranks is obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...