Word: panacea
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Cambridge did not hold a monopoly on corruption. Other Massachusetts cities enjoyed similarly foul reputations. In 1938 the state legislature tried a remedy. It is not surprising that strongest support came from Cambridge reformers. The would-be panacea was Plan E, which provides for a city manager to run the city's affairs and a nine-man council, including a mayor, to legislate...
...Panacea. In Houston, the federal D.A. filed suit to seize and condemn 1,100 pills stocked by the McDonald Prescription Laboratories, Inc., which advertised that the product would temporarily relieve "physical strain...nervous tension, excessive alcoholism, loss of sleep...laziness," and would also make the user "feel good and look better and nicer...
...avoid the cut throat competition of last spring. Not only were they each showing at an average rate of one picture per week, but the Brattle Theatre opened and attracted a large audience away from the New Lecture Hall filmings. Organizations which though films would be a sure panacea for their deficits found themselves showing to empty houses...
...really worrying about Harvard itself--he has put it in a better condition than even its most exacting critics can demand. But we are worried about education, in which Conant has long been the recognized leader. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb and the easy answer. He reached it by . . . demanding honest and unfettered seeking after truth. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom--he was its personification. . . . Too few have had the courage and the will to follow his example, We cannot deny a sense...
Maccoby and Abrams stated last night: "We are sorry that the supposed funny men of the Lampoon do not realize that humor is a great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...