Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last February doctors decided that radium, X-rays or other measures could neither cure her or give her surcease from her terrific pain. The son nursed her, heard her cries, watched the wrinkles of agony deepen in her face. She lacked strength and means for suicide. She begged his pity to kill her. She reasoned with him. Her death was certain. He could but bring it to her sooner, and far more mercifully than the cancer was doing. He pondered...
...corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...
...soon as two Chicago physicians proved that doctors have found little use for vaccines to cure disease, the open-minded American Medical Association hastened, last fortnight, to publish the facts. Vaccines immunize against specific infection. For several years doctors, further, have believed that diligent experiment would show them a vaccine, serum, or antitoxin * to cure any particular disease. Many an agent was tried, and many a disappointment ensued. In Chicago Dr. Ludvig Hektoen and Ernest E. Irons wondered at the extent to which U. S. physicians are now using vaccines to cure disease, as against preventing disease. Accordingly they sent...
...remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused of Calvinism, drunkenness and gluttony, he retained his influence with a sufficient number of cardinals and bishops to acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored, no doubt, as cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion to Pantagruel...
...oilmen been European oilmen, they might have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within the oil industry as a cure for over production, the U. S. tycoon is still a little nervous concerning production agreements which might provoke anti-trust proceedings. So everyone simply shook hands all around and Edwin Benjamin Reeser, head. of A. P. I., also of Barnsdall Corp., Tulsa independent, said: "For the first time in the life...