Word: lethalness
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German doctors discreetly remained silent. They know too well the legal, religious and ethical taboos of all countries against taking life. When absolutely helpless against disease, they might let the patient die (easing his pain with drugs if necessary). But to give him a lethal dose...
...true that a drunkard's son will drink badly (that acquired characteristics are inheritable) ? Not demonstrably. Why is it that more male babies die than females? Because: 1) their inheritance contains more recessive (weak) characteristics; 2) semi-lethal characteristics are of the recessive type. Is death a necessary consequence of life? Immortality has been achieved for certain flatworms, is observable in certain trees. Is sex predeterminate? Not yet, but soon perhaps; meantime, no man is not latently female, and functional sex reversal has actually been wrought upon frogs, chickens, owls...
Here the cries of the caged creatures forced the jovial jester to abandon speech for action. Freed eventually from his trusteeship by the lethal nature of his ward's actions, he continued by explaining that for years he had worked with live animals and that he loved them. "Even Freddle, and I are old friends," he concluded...
TIME defined the urban "connotation of the colloquialism" as follows: Persuader: Negro, and therefore Southern, colloquialism for a lethal weapon.LOSE...
...freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows for taking one drink of whiskey? . . . "Had the United States adopted Quebec's plan and price list on Jan. 1, 1920, we might have continued to drink alcohol as of yore...