Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipal landslide against the Conservatives might force Scot MacDonald to "go to the country" in a general election. In an absent-minded moment last week the Prime Minister drew ironic Labor cheers by remarking to the House: ''Neither protection nor free trade can by itself cure unemployment, which is caused by the breakdown of the present social system...
...decided. So certain are the surgeons of this that they used the phrase as the title of their most important symposium in St. Louis last week. Two dozen able surgeons stood up in meeting one after another and reported 8,836 onetime cases of cancer known to be cured. Most dramatic witness was Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, Cornell Medical School urologist. Cried he: "I am an example of the cure of cancer. Three cancers have been removed from my face by radium or actual cautery...
...international ideal. There are many people who assume a vague, emotional attitude toward world problems; they oppose war as a matter of general principle, they are interested in Communist Russia and in American socialism, they have an ignorant faith in the League of Nations as a political cure-all and they insist eloquently that Frenchmen and Germans are every bit as good as they are. The danger is that these people set up an ideal of an International Man, whom they confuse with a cosmopolite, whose mecca is Geneva, but who has not reality or force because...
Although the committee members were silent on their plans last week, it was thought a meeting would be called in a few days, a staff of experts organized to find and arrange data. No quick cure-all was expected but any legislative changes the committee proposes seem certain of enactment, so potent is the committee's personnel...
While Mr. Coe has an excellent grasp of the field of education today, he is lamentably weak in his treatment of governmental theory. Belief in more democracy as a cure for the evils of democracy, and faith in a rather out-worn liberalism tend to weaken greatly the value of his constructive suggestions. And again, he fails to recognize that one generation is bound to try to teach the next the existing ideals and prejudices. People will not support schools which teach what are held to be subversive doctrines...