Word: cured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person in four can cure insomnia or stuttering by autohypnotic resolve to go to sleep or talk glibly. And he can produce a "will to study" or a "will to work...
...mistaken but she thought they were "in league" against her. Dr. Deane had a Wassermann test made by the Board of Health. When the test came out negative, he suspected his patient was suffering from syphilophobia-a symptom often caused by fear of sex. Thinking he could cure the woman more easily if he humored her, Dr. Deane changed the Board of Health report to "positive." Then he prescribed a red tonic, gave her some harmless injections for her nerves...
...prove no cure-all for a disease that is essentially incurable; but it may heal up some of the chronic grievances aggravated by indiscriminately seating men with their classes. Under the new plan, only the Freshmen--retaining their traditional sector in the midfield track-seats--will remain subject to the inelastic rules of the old class-seniority system...
...Fascist troops in Spain as crusaders in a fine cause, and the International Brigade as the "hoodlum strata" of States seem to be drifting toward "government by the bleachers," i.e., the people. For this and for the remainder of the world's unrest, however, Williams has a sweeping cure-all; he proposes that the United States participate in a "wholesale attack" on Russia to stamp out Communism. He speaks of the Horst Wessel song as "born of the spirit of National rebirth." It is no wonder that his Fascist host in Italy could say as they met, "We think...
...could find out from the school involved just what material was covered and just what standards were maintained. The information thus collected could then be passed on to the department concerned, which, in conjunction with the central committee, would make the final decision. This plan might not be a cure-all, but it would at least be an improvement on the musty rule now in effect...