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Word: cures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOVEL SHORTAGE | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pneumonia | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found the Tribune man very ill, but curable for $90, $20 down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago v. Quacks | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...America needs to root itself in roulettes. If the experiences which The Nation's contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT AND LABORER | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

...years Dr. Henry Spahlinger, famed scientist, has worked to perfect a remedy for tuberculosis. In 1919 he discovered a serum which attracted much attention from the medical profession; since then he has made steady advances, so that now his serum, far stronger than the original discovery, is said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among his test, tubes and retorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spahlinger Imperiled | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

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