Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charm soon made him boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver...
Special exception for individual cases might well cure the evil from this reservation. But up till now there have been no exceptions. Every Literature requirement has had to be fulfilled in the "original language." But even had the authorities unbent in the treatment of special petitions, there would be no reason for retaining a bad requirement among the written rules of the University. It should be removed...
Long a Court devotee, Mrs. Roosevelt confidently undertook a campaign in its behalf. "It looks to me," said she to a women's Conference on the Cause & Cure of War in Washington last fortnight, "as though we were about to take another step toward doing away with war." Positive of a Court victory in the Senate, Pundit Frank Kent gallantly accorded "some of the credit ... to Mrs. Roosevelt...
...solution: "The Christian religion has demonstrated its power to mould the social and political character of the world; but its real force is in working from within by influencing and transforming the individual human sou!. It is not a mere system of philanthropy. It is not a cure for social misery that can be applied from the outside; but ... it brings to each man and woman the message of redemption, and offers them a new nature and new life through faith in Jesus Christ...
...wave has swept over our legislative halls to cure all ills by the enactment of more laws. In our judgment this course hamstrings business and slows down general progress...