Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excretions were sieved so as to determine when the beads, and how many of them, were recovered. The beads used were very small, about two millimetres in diameter. Two of the individuals studied passed around 85% of the beads in 24 hours; but most took four days to get rid of 75%; and there were some who passed from only 50 to 60% in nine days. On an average, 15% of the beads were passed at the end of the first day; 40% on the second; 15% on the third; and from 5 to 10% on the fourth and fifth...
...sons in arms-and of the enterprise of our sons in Congress. The matter was compromised by passing a general bill for 'dividing the War spoils of all kinds among all the States. These trophies are now cluttering up storage space and the War Department must get rid of them...
...real reason for getting rid of him was to pay off old scores. A man of Millerand's forceful character makes many enemies, especially in politics, and those enemies were, according to report, determined to scalp him. There was no reason to doubt that this...
...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...
...than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something and we'll all be much better off. Let's abolish the waste and guarantee every man who is willing to work a decent living, and then we'll get rid of the "unnatural" inflation of the acquisitive instinct which makes men try to "do" the public out of every thing they can. We can then put all the people in the insurance business at work to produce something; we can do the same for 95% of our judges and lawyers...