Word: panacea
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...Doughton demanded, did Dr. Townsend know he had the one and only panacea for economic ills...
...fact that the bill is being met with too little opposition from employers and that the rugged individualists have contented themselves by taking ineffectual pot shots at its provisions. Keen observers feel that in the mad political scramble the bill will be so butchered that the resulting panacea will be based on the idea, preached by Justice Brandies when he was a prophet in the wilderness, that each state should experiment with the various theories, and that "out of such experience should come the most practical answer to each individual case," whether it be that of the so-called Wisconsin...
Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
...only sworn to uphold the President but many of them had taken an additional pledge to vote for unemployment insurance. Yet last week many a Congressman who had taken this double pledge did not really understand what he had promised, thought of "un-employment insurance" as some sort of panacea that would lift the burden of depression unemployment from the U. S. The President showed by his speech that he knew better, knew that it would not solve the present relief problem, would be slow in getting started, that even after it got started it could not take the place...
...fallen far short of its ballyhooed objectives, had, in fact, been a failure by the standards set up by its own sponsors. The Chicago Daily News last week featured the charge of failure in a front page editorial on "the practical collapse of NRA as a Universal Panacea for industrial depression." Three prime reasons were advanced: 1) NRA is legally beaten, a premature claim. For six months the Federal Government has artfully dodged any such ordeal by law. The only immediate test in sight resulted from a decision by a Federal court in Texas exempting local oil producers, not signers...