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...cancer. ... It is certain that efforts in this field have thus far been quite desultory and inefficient. . . . [No] new curative agent or method will be found in the near future. . . . The only successful methods of treatment [are surgery, radium applications or X-ray], and this means removal, not cure in the real sense. Cancer is the greatest of all the hazards of living. . . . It will probably always remain in this position of importance and may even become much more prominent as a cause of death...
Princeton maintained that the present administration has failed to cure unemployment, and has brought instead the twin evils of unsound monetary policy and deficit spending...
...enjoy the Adventures of Robert in Bumbledom, decided that one of Mr. Taft's most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...
...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...
...full professor at Chicago; over 20 years ago he wrote the books that made him an authority. But as a prime example of a "Big Name" professor, he would not share the tutoring burden of the Department. The undeniable lustre of his name would only cover up, not cure, the aches and pains of the Department...