Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study is not futile merely because it has not given a panacea for business ills; for the depression by making problems more complex and more acute is actually giving the field a greater appeal. They must see that economists are not primarily moneymakers and do not propose to find cure-alls, but rather hope to examine the economic structure and to analyze factors, controlling those which can be controlled and weighing those which cannot. The decrease of membership of the Economics department, by indicating the closer restriction of the field to these men who do understand its aims, shows...
...Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more susceptible...
...singling out for attack comparatively trivial undergraduate peculation's is a trifle ridiculous. But the charge compares perfectly with the vague sentiment of college men, based on a few proven instances, that responsible positions are frequently abused for personal profit. The accusation obviously cannot be denied, but the proposed cure is singularly superficial...
...Waters. The fad for radio active waters was for a short time valid. Investigators experimented by activating ordinary water. Their experiments took two directions: 1) to dissolve radium salts in water; 2) to expose water to radium emanation. Doctors thought that they had evidence that waters so treated would cure chronic arthritis, gout, neuritis, high blood pressure. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association soon found that quacks were selling the waters as cures for "anemia, leukemia, boils, blackheads and pimples." The A. M. A. Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry withdrew approval of devices purporting to make waters radioactive...
...Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between Philip Crow, the rich industrialist who expected to inherit Canon Crow's money and industrialize all Glastonbury with its help, and John Geard, who with the help...