Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
Necklaces of amber to prevent and cure goiter...
...President Roosevelt knew as well as anyone that the easy expedient of piling one new law on top another was not a sure cure for crime. Said...
...throttle, speeding up consumption, preaching emulative expenditure, 'styling' clothes, kitchens, automobiles - everything, in the interest of more rapid obsolescence and replacement." In Our Master's Voice he describes advertising's economic and cultural causes and consequences, thinks history will soon or late describe its cure. Adman Rorty came in on advertising's comparatively modest ground floor in 1913, worked at it off and on for 19 years, says his first three days on the job taught him "all that any bright young man needed to know about the mysteries of advertising copy-writing." Scoffing...
...there isn't a greater enthusiasm for planning. We seem to be more prone to favor panaceas, the suggested legislation that they tell us will cure everything in 30 days...