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Word: curely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody pretended that the stagger system was anything more than a cure for economic snuffles, seasonal sprain and local dislocations: a real galloping case of economic depression would quickly empty the Massachusetts unemployment fund. Last week the fund was paying out $1,000,000 more than it was taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Staggers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Longtime Cure. Although Muñoz has refused to talk about his future, friends would be astonished if he had any plans except to finish his term, then run again. No one knows better than Muñoz that Puerto Rico's worst headaches cannot be cured in four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...carried out diplomatically and efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Equality in the Forces | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedside Manner | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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