Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
...this makes St. Mike's sure that its two-world formula is a first-rate cure for provincialism in Catholic education. Is there any good reason, many college administrators wonder, why in an age of ecumenicism similar Catholic colleges could not be set up at private U.S. universities...
...orbit seemed wildly improbable. But when Bell Telephone Laboratories' Telstar sullenly ignored a command after four months of faithful performance, Bell's electronic doctors wasted no time. While unresponsive Telstar circled the earth in silence, they spent six frantic weeks in their labs concocting a cure for its ailment...
...trouble was the curious manner in which the satellite had quit. Several times before total failure it had reluctantly obeyed a command only after it had been repeated for many minutes. This suggested that the passage of a signal through one of the ailing decoders tended to cure it in much the same way that exercise helps some human ills...
When biology bores and philosophy palls, there is no cure-all like a quick trip to a Bogart movie, where tensions can be worked out by that funny little man who hits back so hard when he gets pushed too far. And no callow youth is really a Harvard Man if he has never seen Casablanca-- the all-time hunk of cinema hokum--during exam period...