Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search for an educational panacea has brought forth such a variety of proposed cures that it is not to be wondered if the net result to the patient is little more than a confused state of mind. A galaxy of remedies ranging all the way from the Micklejohn experiment at Wisconsin to the House Plan at Yale and Harvard presents and array broad enough to convince the layman that all the best authorities are not agreed even to the point of diagnosis. But perhaps in the most recent recommendation -- that of Professor Henderson of Yale--there is a new note...
...ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway, the unions aren't as strong as they used to be. . . . If the Southern textile owners and operators tie up with the labor unions, then they will see the textile industry move elsewhere, as it already moved once...
...evident that most of the Harvard Club presidents have been convinced that the "terrible individualism" of Harvard students and the great size of the University has produced a rift in undergraduate social solidarity which can only be remedied by such an attractive panacea as the House Plan theoretically provides. Most of the favorable statements are made by men who have been out of College over twenty years. These prominent alumni admit that they and their friends are not in touch with undergraduate social life. Still, if such alarming conditions as the House Plan promises to ameliorate really exist today, they...
...Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...
...course, goes too far. His alignment of cause and effect is usually distorted. But despite his exaggeration, exaggerations which bring a smile to the supporter of democracy but which Mr. Daudet regards as Gospel truth, there is to be found a germ of truth. Democracy has not proved the panacea for all national ills. M. Daudet believes that Catholic monarchism is the patent medicine which will provide the remedy, and says so in a manner that is comparable only to a combination of Mencken and Oswald Garrison Villard. One does not agree with Daudet any more than one agree with...