Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the Fitzwarren servants to send something of their own in their master's ships to make a little money, Dick was virtually forced to send his cat away; but the cat caught rats for a foreign king; and the king paid enormous sums for the cat; and all this money Dick...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities...
...Lord High Chancellor replied: "We are assured that it is the desire of the commercial community and the general community to get rid of the election as fast as possible...
...youngest director of the banking house of Graham & Co., was seriously handicapped by having on his hands simultaneously one of the world's greater fortunes, a labor war in a coal district, and a love affair with socialistic Rhoda, who will have none of him unless he first gets rid of his money...
...that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends. If the teacher is not a good one, it is better to limit the number of his students--that is, if you can't get rid of him altogether. Similarly, a college should be small if the instruction it imparts is not first rate. But if its faculty contains great teachers, it is a loss for the nation if its enrolment is not large...