Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says Lord Curzon to Mussolini: " And what remedy did you use to cure the disease of Bolshevism...
With these drawbacks firmly in the reader's mind, the book will probably prove decidedly interesting to a follower of professional baseball. Who, for example, knows that Hans Wagner made the longest throw on record ? That Bugs Raymond once took the Keely cure? That McGraw raised Fred Snodgrass' salary $1,000 after the fielder muffed the fly which cost the Giants a World's Series...
...prize for a " medicinal treatment for the effective cure of cancer" offered by Lord Atholstan, Montreal newspaper publisher (TIME, April 7), is attracting world-wide attention. Since the offer was made public, January 2, 1922, in a letter to Sir Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with...
...cure for cancer. (P. 22.) Archbishops...
...Curative measures include government distribution of quinine, establishment of hospitals, and special steps for the cure of tuberculosis, typhus, syphilis, cholera, and other pestiferous infections...