Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your article about Alcoholics Anonymous [TIME, Dec. 22] was highly interesting. However, the type of naiveté demonstrated in some of its statements is always astounding to those who have the Christian point of view. The doctor wonderingly reported a startling discovery: the cure of an alcoholic was effected by his "surrender to a higher power." For centuries Christians have been witnessing that the surrender "to a higher power" is the only successful approach to all personal problems. And for centuries before Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated...
Long since used to his odd ailment, Flynn grew up with the nickname "Tick Tock." He did not think there was anything particularly unusual about it until he read of another case. Flynn served in the Navy during the war, and Navy doctors suggested no cure...
...with new and powerful anti-histaminic drugs, warned Dr. Charles P. Huttrer of Manhattan's Warner Institute for Therapeutic Research. The danger is that doctors are inclined to ignore possible secondary effects of the drugs. Such "histaminoid accidents" cause allergic reactions elsewhere in the body, may make the cure worse than the disease...
...unit volume, i.e., the number of items sold, went down an estimated 10% during 1947. Part of the drop was due to the increase in production, which tended to satisfy demand, and part to the rise in prices. In a free economy, prices can also be a cure for inflation-if a harsh one. As London's Economist put it: "Rising prices and inflation are . . . associated together, like scarlet fever and rising temperatures. . . . But so far from being the same thing, one is nature's cure for the other. Inflation is an excess of demand over supply...
...they had woefully neglected the inflation in the rest of the world-which was producing far less than its share of goods. What was worse, Government and industry had mistakenly thought that somehow they would isolate U.S. inflation from the world's and quickly cure it even though the rest of the world remained sick...