Word: panaceas
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...panacea, the one upon which British Hope is pinned today, is Britain's new exclusionist embargo and tariff policy (see Parliament's Week) upon which she counts to reduce her imports. But this is not enough. She must increase her exports. How? The fundamental trouble is with the brains of British businessmen, as H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, told them again last week. They are too slow to master the U. S. methods of salesmanship...
After a long study of the subject the staff of the Bureau has come to regard the interval-light traffic signal system as almost a panacea for congestion and delays on busy city streets. At the request of the Boston City government the Bureau undertook a thorough survey of conditions in that city in 1929, which resulted in the installation, among other things, of this system of lights on School and Washington Streets, and the streets which run at right angles to them, and also along the length of Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. This arrangement consists of an electrical time...
...offer as a panacea an exodus into the corn fields and rolling prairie land is obviously Utopian and quite impossible under the conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack...
...enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic: Russian communism or sore gums. In short, the Americans are essentially unbusinesslike, artists and imaginers in soul. So much the better for them, I like them...
...fact that graduate students in the arts and sciences are presumably preparing for positions in education accounts in part for the relative poverty of the School in first-rate minds. For, in spite of education's noisy acclaim as the panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...