Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches...
...these so highly "educated" persons set so extreme a value on victory, behave like a cross between an idiot and a maniac? Sometimes one thinks their case is pathological. Sometimes one wonders if a Society for the Introduction of Civilization into Large Colleges would do any good? Would it cure these Dionysians, graduate and undergraduate, if they were settled among the Pueblo Indians to learn gentlemanly sportsmanship and the rudiments of breeding? But this would be laying too hard a task upon those children of an immemorial culture --New York Times...
...Significance of a doctor's diagnosis is in proportion to his ability to prescribe a remedy. This doctor has a simple cure in mind. He concludes (in effect) : "Go to the library. Read the newspapers newsmagazines, literary reviews. Follow your leads into good books...
Prevention lies with maintaining sound health, cure with nourishing foods, plentiful clean air, abundant sunshine. (Ultraviolet light, from quartz lamps has proven efficacious substitute for sunlight...
...Dover, Ohio, last week, four tipplers received a "water-cure" sentence of ten days from Mayor Groh; a gallon must be imbibed on each day; failure as to quantity will mean an extra...