Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program last week had not proceeded much beyond the talking stage. While economists, political pundits, politicians, columnists, editorial writers and even members of the President's own circle of advisers vied with each other over the vital point of whether Government spending was 1) the best cure for or 2) a chief cause of Recession, practical developments in the pump-priming campaign were as follows...
Ever since primitive medicine men cast out devils with incantations and dances, music and medicine have kept up a nodding acquaintance. Asclepius, Greek god of healing, used three methods to treat the ill: drugs, surgery and "soft music." Ancient Greek Theophrastus used music to cure snakebite; Ancient Greek Pythagoras used it to treat insanity. The savage breast of many a high-strung potentate, from Saul to Hitler, has been soothed by music's charms...
...research has no commercial application; it will cure no disease," declared Paul D. Bartlett, 30-year-old assistant professor of chemistry and winner of this year's $1000 prize in pure chemistry awarded yesterday by the American Chemical Society...
Having with unwonted consideration first told Congress that there was a Depression and that he meant to cure it, a few hours later last week, the President told the country. Result was his twelfth "fireside chat," delivered from the diplomatic room...
...same time Costals tries to cure provincial, affected Andrée Hacquebaut of her love for him, insults her, tears up her letters, considers pushing her under a passing automobile, and almost walks the legs off her when she visits him in Paris. Although he gets Solange, and gets Andrée, both triumphs cost so much misery that even male readers are to have a low opinion of Costals by the time wins them. Their opinion might be even lower, Author de Montherlant implies, were they unable to find comparable cruelty somewhere in the history of their own love...