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Word: cures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a reasonable start on whipping Michigan's problems. But that is an awfully large if. The savage factionalism of Michigan's politics has resulted in economic stagnation for the state. Romney was elected on the promise that he could and would get everyone working together to cure Michigan's ills; it would be suicide if, at this stage, he were to cast hopeful glances toward Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: The Inaugurals | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...cold sores had previously taken seven to 21 days to heal; now they cleared up in two to five days. Since anybody infected with herpes simplex usually carries the virus for life, though infection erupts only at intervals, the next step is to find out how long the IDU "cure" lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virology: An Exception Extended | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...rushing pell-mell to U.S. campuses, African students often find a bitter reality of poverty, loneliness and academic failure. One cure for this mess, which wins the U.S. no friends in Africa, is a common-sense group called the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. Developed three years ago by David D. Henry, former admissions dean of Harvard, A.S.P.A.U. now links 24 African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight-A Africans | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...measured in the girl's blood, which showed a vitamin-A level of 943 units, compared with a normal range of 30 to 60 units. To stimulate the growth of the girl's left leg. Dr. Pease put ivory implants in the bones, but he could not cure the damage already done. The difference in leg length has remained constant at two inches. The girl is only 4 ft. 10½ in. tall, though her father stands 5 ft. 11 in., and her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much of a Good Thing | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Climbing Costs. Last week such humble dramas of achievement were taking place at ten schools scattered all over Chicago. In a mass attack on illiteracy, the first of its kind in a big U.S. city, Chicago has set out to cure thousands of men and women of what Raymond W. Hilliard, director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid, calls "infectious ignorance" - uneducated, unemployable people breeding ever greater numbers of children who in turn grow up to be uneducated and unemployable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rx for Infectious Ignorance | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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