Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pool mediocrity is not a panacea. It is not a simple way out of a complex situation. But Federal money and faculty realignment will help to solve a problem that cannot be ignored by a nation which invests twice as much in autocars as education...
...those employed in developing Salk anti-polio .vaccine, Price and his staff grew JH virus in monkey kidney tissue, killed it with formaldehyde to ready it for inoculation. Though development of JH vaccine seems a big step forward in cold prevention, it is far from a sneeze-ending panacea. Pending further studies, the American Medical Association is withholding judgment. Still to be determined, among other things: whether the vaccine can be produced commercially and how long it gives immunity without booster shots. Dr. Price himself cautiously points out that so far he has discovered only one mild cold-causing virus...
Depression Panacea. Social Credit took its original inspiration from the funny-money theories of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, who argued that the state should issue certificates of credit to all citizens, thus provide abundant purchasing power to stimulate and absorb production in a free-enterprise economy. The Social Crediters readily sold their panaceas to the Depression-racked Albertans of 1935. moved to power on a promise to pay every citizen $25 a month. But Social Credit's early efforts to write the Douglas theories into law ran into a formidable legal roadblock; repeatedly, the courts held...
Educational TV is no panacea, no cure-all for the University world. Rather it is one possible means of meeting expansion problems and increasing the effectiveness of teaching. If used intelligently and without attempting to apply it to the entire educational process, it has great potentialities
...nothing else, the events at Alabama five months ago illustrate that moderation in itself is no panacea to the South's race problem. In addition to merely admitting a carefully selected Negro, it is necessary to consider complex factors and to be prepared to deal with them. Alabama was not ready for Autherine Lucy, but it probably will never be cordial to the pioneers in integration...