Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
...milligrams-equivalent to two or three marijuana cigarets) to 50 depressed patients who had not been helped by psychotherapy. Result: 36 of the 50 felt much better, forgot their vague aches & pains, took a cheerful new lease on life. But the drug was not a permanent cure, and in big doses, it seems to be habit-forming...
...Instead, we have a crazy situation whereby the U.S. must send food to Germany and coal to Italy. It's like trying to cure a sick woman by smearing a coat of make-up on her face. American aid must be directed to the root of Europe's trouble; equip European industry with the tools, and production will take care of itself...
Last week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...
...accepted in the school, they were not permitted use of the hospital for their clinical work, hence if they wanted a degree they had to do clinical work on their own in a Negro hospital. Asks Author Ojike: "Why should a . . . college train a white doctor to come to cure Nigerians and at the same time refuse to train a Nigerian to go home and cure his people...