Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick man does strenuous thinking before he decides to undergo a serious operation. The "sick" American colleges, too, will be chary of the decision made by H. (1. Wells and also by a corespondent of the "Nation" that the only cure for a prevalent lack of real interest in learning among college students is a generous wielding of the knife and saw. Wells, in fact, considers that to kill is to cure, and advises that, since college is a "palpable waste of time", all general education should give place to small specialized groups in close relation with their professors...
After the five days of the symposium, Dr. Soper made an abstract of the information presented there: 1) for practical purposes, cancer is not contagious; 2) cancer itself is not hereditary; 3) surgery, radium and X-rays are the only justifiable forms of treatment for cancer; and 4) cure depends upon treatment in the earliest stages...
...skeleton form, the political creed of the average American citizen, the dogmas which he accepts as fundamental truths notwithstanding their repuguance to the dictates of reason and to the teachings of experience. "Government must rest on the consert of the governed." "Democracy is government by the whole people." "The cure for the ills of a democracy is more democracy." (What a strange, article of faith that slogan embodies' Were I to say that the remedy for the evils of misgovernment is more misgovernment I should be saying something just as rational, but I should be giving you a poor opinion...
...Manhattan, Dr. C. Everett Field, director of the Radium Institute of New York, had vexed many physicians by advocating a cancer-cure nostrum of one Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit. Dr. Field's advocacy was the more dangerous because of the wide press publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American...
...well as bucked up. He stays to take his medicine. And when Dids goes off to college, Mrs. Bascomb finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good and bad characteristics, actions...