Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excused as carelessness; it is pure selfishness. "Forgetting" to return a book goes much further than even such selfishness. The Governing Board of the Union should not be left to deal with this situation; undergraduate sent meat should be so outspoken that it will result in a movement to rid Harvard of all book "hogs...
...bitterly of conditions which have made building in New York, and to a considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers is mild compared with that of labor union officials who manage...
...more and more to ask why we should enter into relations with a moneyless, creditless country, whose government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...
Noonan's Hair Petrole will soon rid the scalp of scales and dandruff, will give tone and renewed life to hair that is slowly dying from neglect. Rub a little in the scalp every night for seven nights and note how the hair appears to take on new life...
...Tolbert at midfield when muffed by a black-jerseyed back. Eight yard dashes by Chapin and Johnson, topped by line plunges by Horween and Owen respectively, gave the University two first downs, and threatened the seconds' goal. Here, Johnson was nabbed for a loss before he could get rid of a pass, and, in spite of two successful forward passes, the ball went to the scrubs on downs...