Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be impossible to continue giving them so many considerations here, they will be submitted to an acclimation treatment, in the full meaning of the word, during which they will have to become accustomed to making fewer demands...
Five hundred U.S. mules, earmarked for Greece as part of the $300 million aid program, have been undergoing "gentling treatment" at Fort Reno, in Oklahoma. They will sail from New Orleans in September. Since mountainous Greece is not like flat Oklahoma, the mules may find it hard going at first. But at least there will be no language difficulty, for these mules will have U.S. skinners: 50 hard-bitten G.I.s...
...enemies, the Finns are paying the highest per capita reparations: $300 million, ending in 1952. But Russia, though tightening every possible screw in the treaty terms, has not sprung any surprises and has permitted the Finns, by & large, to run their own country in their own way. Under this treatment, which calls mainly for hard work, the industrious Finns have thrived...
...phrasing is too elaborate," wrote the late Woodrow Wilson, in an old letter just made public last week. The professor-President was criticizing his own literary Style. "The transitions are managed too Smoothly . . ." he wrote. "The treatment plays in circles. . . . The sentences are too obviously wrought out with a nice workmanship. They do not sound as if they had come spontaneously...
...Everybody Listening? (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox) gives U.S. radio a once-over-lightly treatment with a sharp critical razor. The film achieves a telling effect by letting radio speak for itself-on the theory that there is enough rope lying around any broadcasting studio to hang most of the people responsible for radio. A good deal is accomplished, too, by the unemphatic statement of some familiar but appalling statistics: the suds of soap opera drown out 48% of daylight broadcasting time, and some 20 million U.S. housewives love that suds...