Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cure is as bad as the disease not only because its machinery old and new is at fault; the entire principle of censorship is an out worn heritage of civilizations dead and gone. Its most persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...
...agents, usually so scrupulous of property rights, have entirely neglected to remedy this abuse of a war-time privilege. Senator Borah moved yesterday that restoration be made; President Coolidge has concurred. Yet it is certain that at least in this session no effort will be made to provide a cure for this injustice...
...retiring Ambassador went on to glorify at great length the work done last year in the interests of world peace. He saw in the growth of tolerance a sure cure for Europe's ills, political, financial and economic; as a result he predicted new conferences to settle many outstanding difficulties which at present make...
...week's listening, a week's thinking, a week's speaking and the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, held by nine women's organizations in Washington (TIME, Jan. 26), was over. Although there was much talk, the chief effort of the conference was to find expression-effective means of expressing in action a will to peace. First, by lecture and debate, the causes of war were considered. Next, the cures were considered. Finally came resolutions...
...William S. Culbertson, of the U. S. Tariff Commission, proposed an international conference on the distribution of raw materials and the conservation of national resources. cure for it is birth control...