Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are many reasons why an industry may not be able to pay expenses out of receipts. Expenses may simply be so high as to make it impossible to sell the product or the service at a price that will tempt buyers. There is no cure for that except to reduce expenses. If wages are the chief expense, that may necessitate a reduction of wages. If the laborers will not accept that, they remain unemployed. In that case they can not be said to be unable to find employment; they are only unable to find as remunerative employment as they...
Unfortunately, however, for the success of the idea the American public is not sufficiently educated in foreign politics to understand the peculiar importance of curing the existing disorder in the Far East and the effect of such a cure upon the peace of the world and the limitation of naval armaments. That part of the American people which is most interested in peace does not distinguish between land and naval armaments and the difference of political objects which provoke nations to undertake one rather than the other. It does not see that armies raised a much more unmanageable group...
...hundred thousand dollars to be used in studying the origin and cure of cancer has been bequeathed to the University under the terms of the will of Mr. H. F. Mills '89, filed this week in the Plymouth Probate Court. The fund, to be named after his wife, will be known as the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund...
...bequeath into the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in memory of my beloved wife, Elizabeth Worcester Mills, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars to be known as the "Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund", the income from such fund to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer. In the event that thereafter the opinion of the President and Fellows of said College such investigation shall have been satisfactorily concluded. I authorize the President and Fellows of said College to devote such income to such other medical investigation or research as in their judgment will most...
...general opinion was, that in some more efficient organization of existing school clubs and the formation of new ones from schools where none exist at present, and in the coordination of purpose and cooperation among the recognized clubs, the most effective cure for present troubles was to be found...