Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations. The village, including houses built when Peter Stuyvesant peg-legged it along the leafy Bouwerie, is to be razed by May 1. The only Eastview buildings to be spared in Rockefeller Land are: "Low-erre," summer home of Chainstorekeeper James Butler...
...define production as making things to sell, and selling as getting rid of the goods, we can define the financial end of business as finding where the profit is; and it is in the treasurer's department that most businesses are made or broken. A friend of mine once said...
...second main division of business may be covered under the general heading of distribution. This would include selling, in its broadest sense, and advertising. We may define it as "getting rid of the goods". Most products go through the hands of several salesmen, first perhaps the wholesaler, then the jobber, then the retailer. In the automobile business they go through that part of the organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials...
...yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan, of the police force, the Commission asked him to kidnap the "half starved cats who perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them...
Composer Thomson is 33, a native of Kansas City who was educated at Harvard and has lived since 1925 in Paris. His purpose in choosing a text done in Gertrude Stein's way was, he says, to concentrate all attention on the linguistic problems by getting rid of all meaning...