Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill the patient." He said he would send his company's comptroller to help President Dykstra work out the figures...
None of them, however, affords certain relief, and the cause & cure of seasickness remain one of medicine's minor mysteries...
When the "undergraduate faculty" plan was launched last spring, however, P.B.H. at long last started to apply a fundamental cure to a few of the "one-third of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed." With education as their weapon, the student tutors are striking eventually at the reasons for adult perversions. The long-run results of this new program do not bear fruit as yet. But the immediate consequences are equally important. Tutor no less than tutee will benefit from such contacts; it is the "faculty" as well as the pupils who receive the education...
...hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse: a First-Century martyr named St. Philomena...
...most novels about doctors were concerned with triumphs in emergencies; that in real life most doctors had plenty of long-drawn-out failures. In this novel, which she rewrote three times, she makes Dr. Norton fail in two pinches which squeeze him as well as his patients-he cannot cure his wife of multiple sclerosis, his sister-in-law of loving...