Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of these vaccines is it claimed that it will cure infantile paralysis, once the disease has set in. And even the power of these vaccines to prevent the disease will remain theoretical until a large community of children receive injections before the infantile paralysis season reaches its peak in summer. If the incidence of the disease then shows a marked drop below normal, all humanity may have good reason to salute Professor John Albert Kolmer...
...walked out and told newshawks: "When I got away, I picked two cooties off my coat sleeves." In the next few weeks Brother Herman will inspect more public baths and swimming pools in Manhattan, draw up a report on them tor Brother Bernard. When he returns from taking his cure at Vichy, Brother Bernard in turn will report to Mayor LaGuardia on the need for more baths. Brother Herman explained: "I've been interested in public baths for many years because my father, Dr. Simon Baruch, established the first one in Manhattan, and Bernard is equally interested. . . . Much...
...Washington last week was made public an executive order signed ten days earlier by the President while in Panama which, with a $15,000,000 expenditure, started a ten-year, $75,000,000 project to cure droughts on the Great Plains. The project: Planting 100 parallel strips of forest, each 115 ft. wide and spaced a mile apart, which would run 1,000 miles from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle...
Even if a little advertising of the corn cure, roup remedy or rattlesnake oil type does appear in the ready-printed portions of many a small weekly, is this frank type of display any more harmful than some run by our larger brothers of the newspapers and magazines? Is a corn cure that is at least harmless any worse than a page spread which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer...
Even at the peak of his renown he had great visions. In 1900 he was ready to cure tuberculosis with oscillating electricity. In 1909 he promised motors capable of driving ocean liners at 50 knots. In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers. In the last decade his annual utterances have been mostly rehashes of previous interviews, with something new every three or four years. In 1924 he was planning to transmit power by radio. In 1927 he was scheming to harness sea power. In 1931 he would make all fuels superfluous by tapping cosmic energy. Last week Dr. Tesla...