Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asiatic cholera. In 1849, polluted drinking water brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin, vowing that if they were spared they would devote...
Borah: I say the Congress of the U. S. could not get rid of nine insane men except through the power of impeachment. That's what was done in the days when the Constitution was observed...
...Grover Whalen and Jimmy Walker, models of sartorial perfection though both were, had little in common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced...
...Reno a wife may get rid of one husband and acquire another the same day, but industries seldom undergo such swift vicissitudes. For them the process of losing one meal ticket and acquiring another is generally a matter of years. Not so the U. S. shipping industry. Last week, after only 75 days of argument, it underwent the equivalent of a Reno divorce and remarriage, with a disconcerting reduction of alimony...
...Recent disclosures of foreign engineers who have now left the country as a result of the Soviet Union's drive to get rid of foreigners, form a vivid picture of industrial chaos from top to bottom. Foreigners having business with Soviet organizations report them in confusion. They start dealing with one set of executives only to have them disappear and be succeeded by another, who know nothing of what has gone before and who themselves soon disappear, to be succeeded by another set of novices...