Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misunderstanding over the Games has arisen, It seems to me, from two main sources: first, the insistence of those at the head of affairs that the Games would be an immediate cure-all for international disagreement; and second, the failure to remember that the Games are athletic contests of the highest and most nervous sort...
...Richards said yesterday after practice to a group of reporters that surrounded his car. "Most of these men have two-week injuries, and we have but one week in which to cure them." He confidently expects, however, that several of the above listed men will be able to face the Elis...
Died in Paris, Dr. Bergonie, radium expert of Bordeaux, killed by the effects of the insidious element he had used so adeptly to cure others. At the Bordeaux Clinique, of which he was Röntgenologist,? he had long carried on experiments with radium, in which he had consummate faith as a curative, studying its effect on gangrenous growths, on cancer. Continued exposure to radium rays caused a disintegration of the cells of his right arm, which had to be amputated. A cancerous infection had invaded his respiratory system. Dying, he called a council of physicians, outlined to them...
Died. Reginald Ronalds, onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider; in Mexico, when he was climbing a mountain to inspect gold and silver mines of which he was part owner. His daughter by his first marriage was known as 'the frappeed baby" from cold storage methods used to cure a childish illness. His mother, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, was a favorite of Queen Victoria...
...doing. In the solarium at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, a large window of fused quartz has been installed for use in child cases; and similar work is going on elsewhere. This quartz is, however, expensive. Until facilities are greatly expanded, the treatment must remain what it is?a cure for a limited number, not a widespread means of promoting the general health of children, stimulating growth and obviating the bone-troubles of the race. So used, it might be possible to develop a race of supermen, immune to rickets, rheumatism and bowlegs. At the present time, the most practical application...