Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treatment is a thing the physician must puzzle out for himself, according to each patient's peculiarities. Victims should avoid excitement, eat regularly and moderately, keep the bowels regular. Eyes should be corrected by glasses...
Campaigners against Cancer try to avoid scaring the public about Cancer. They feel there is already enough hysteria on the subject. Clarence Cook Little, who since his resignation as University of Michigan's president directs both the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (heredity & cancer) at Bar Harbor, Me., and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remarks in Cancer: "By the publication of quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands...
Surgery, X-rays, and radium are the standbys for treatment and cure. In sur gery, of course, some sound flesh goes with the bad. The cancer surgeon can no more avoid some waste than the housewife when she reams the eyes out of potatoes...
...Reading Period. At Rollins we have made it the one and only method by establishing what we call the two-hours conference system. A group of students work together for two hours at a stretch. The material is at hand. They dig into it on their own. Nobody can avoid digging in as he would avoid preparing for a recitation. There is nothing else to do. Then, when the study portion of the period is over, the students discuss what they have managed to find out. All through the two hours, a professor sits by. Not to see that...
...else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both...