Word: cured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Never Again! Yes, Berillon muttered, by hypnotism he could cure "almost anything." Could he cure a drunkard that way? Replied Berillon: "I treated an alcoholic only once. I put him to sleep and in his trance made him hold up his right hand and swear never again to use it to touch a glass containing alcohol...
...ardent disciple of Berillon, Lucie Guillet, offered the second message of hope. The science she-and she alone-practices, she calls poetico-therapy: the cure, by poetry, of nervous disorders, or physical ailments arising from them. Madame Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...
...Greece, where 150,000 seriously ill patients are in need of a rest cure-but there are only 5,000 T.B. hospital beds...
...nation without infringing upon labor's right to strike. Seizure or injunctions only postpone the day of decision. Even outright nationalization would only exchange one employer for another without necessarily removing the causes for labor unrest. Up to now Congress has confined its questing to drastic and eventually repressive cure-all measures, and has neglected to explore the possibilities of limited intervention in major industrial tie-ups to insure only the bare minimum of production or services essential to the public health and safety. While the problems of working out a pattern of limited intervention in strikes in essential industries...
...think so. With air fares now about 50% higher, mile for mile, than rail fares, the airlines were bound to lose some of their present traffic to railroads by a further increase. Airline troubles, compounded of over expansion and falling traffic, were too deep-seated for any quick cure...