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...exile, Benes won Allied support for his refugee government, organized a new Czechoslovak army, kept close contact with the homeland's hopes and fears, and planned a new synthesis. "Ideas do not stand still," he said. "We accept the catch phrase of the last war: 'The cure for democracy is more democracy...
...that U.S. companies may now get exploratory concessions in India, Trinidad and many other parts of the British Empire from which they have been barred. Most of all, oilmen hope that if the swollen wartime oil production causes the expected world surplus in petroleum, they will be able to cure it in other ways than by price-cutting each other's throats...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...
...open field) will kill tubercle bacilli in test tubes. This announcement, by the University of California's Dr. Anthony J. Salle, may mean very little. Test-tube results are only a preliminary step and subtilin has a long way to go to prove itself; like many another potential "cure," it may be no good in the human body...
...thobber is a person who prefers guesswork to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by asserting them frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...