Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prevention of crime rather than cure of criminals should be the aim of public guardians of peace and order. The clinics which have been established in connection with police courts in many of the more progressive cities are a promising first step. But before even such a step can be generally taken public opinion must discard the notions which have survived since the days of prison ships and quarry dungeons...
...earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning of plain speech lit the cloudy thunders of their discourse . . . "$62,000,000,000." . . . "The most amazing development in History." . . . "How to cure rickets...
Prof. H. Steenbock gave the details of his cure for rickets. He has succeeded in effecting this cure in rats by exposing the animals to violet rays from a quartz mercury lamp. He has, it is also believed, discovered a new vitamin in olive oil, helpful to those who have diabetes...
...college, so that no one should go away empty handed. This suggestion I like to make to my friends among the graduates of the proud small colleges, who fear that the larger places, grappling however clumsily with the problem of intellectual hunger, may become "degree factories". Yet the real cure is not in such devices of administration, but in the attitude of the teacher...
...gossipy, relentlessly pert daughter who has engaged herself to the son of the house, whose great ambition is to become a veterinary: such is the assemblage. To give them excuse for talking through three acts, a drove of ailing pigs is introduced. The son wants to buy the pigs, cure them, sell for a plump profit that will take the mortgage off the house. Eventually he does so. In the meanwhile, there are two hours of pretty consistent amusement?due in no small part to the expert character-playing of Nydia Westman, Wallace Ford, Maud Granger and George Henry Trader...