Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medicine has no cure for middle age, but it has learned to ease the symptoms. The sick salesman was given treatments of testosterone (male hormone). After eight weeks of this simple therapy, he emerged from his emotional slump...
James C. Petrille has every right to be concerned about the unhealthy economic state of American musicians as a group. The industry is acutely overcrowded, a condition for which one cure would be an application of the age old rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is a different prognosis, although it involves almost as old a principle, namely that technological progress constitutes a social menace. The new record ban, according to his announcement, is not just a means of obtaining for musicians a bigger share of the $210,000,000 annual income from recordings...
...says, "I was sent here. The people were very poor, and when they got sick they had no money for medicine. So they came to me for help, and I told them to do as the Church told them-use the holy water, say three Hail Marys and cure yourself." In effect, that is what he is still doing...
...cure the dollar-shortage sickness, the only remedy in sight was a cut in imports of U.S. goods; to many the cure seemed worse than the disease...
...only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...