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...whose cage was not kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...
...into the field must see that the study is not futile merely because it has not given a panacea for business ills; for the depression by making problems more complex and more acute is actually giving the field a greater appeal. They must see that economists are not primarily moneymakers and do not propose to find cure-alls, but rather hope to examine the economic structure and to analyze factors, controlling those which can be controlled and weighing those which cannot. The decrease of membership of the Economics department, by indicating the closer restriction of the field to these...
...summons tonight is a call to the faith of a people. Not to faith in some rosy panacea or pretentious theory but to their intelligent faith in themselves and in individual resourcefulness and enterprise, and to the sense of responsibility of every man to his neighbor. The safest risk in the world is a share in the future of the American people...
Offering the plan as "a panacea for the ills from which the shipping industry has been suffering for the last two years," Cunard revealed that the only requirements for installment-plan transportation will be a good character and 25% of the fare. The rest is payable monthly at the rate of as little as $10 per month. All Morris Plan banks will participate in the scheme, will waive such customary requirements applied to loan seekers as in-dorsers, payment for investigation, surcharges. Only charge will be 6% interest. Last week's newspapers carried Cunard advertisements with the slogan: TRAVEL...
...socially ambitions are held up to the scorching ridicule of Mr. Powers' homely eloquence until they are babbled to cringing subjection by his irrepressible tongue, reenforced with frequent inhibitions of well-spiked punch. He offers an injection of wholesome common sense and good-humored sentiment as a panacea "for what ails the damned theatre," as he quaintly phrases...