Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyers, pondering the decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish...
...stock. And Mayor Wilson had a plan, with which Dr. Mitten agreed, that was much more pleasing to the employe-stockholders, though it seemed likely that the Delaware River would run upstream before the creditors would accept it. So Mayor Wilson and Dr. Mitten wanted the employes to get rid of the trustees and put the Wilson Plan before the Court, whereas President Senter wanted them to prolong the trustee ship and accept the Company Plan...
...after much ado, feeling he hath won my humour, he did present the bill which being so large I swore not to pay. But he, with much technique, did win me over. I, much vexed; for such business doth displease me; and was glad at my heart to be rid...
When Holtz had Howerth's laboratory burned down to get rid of a corpse that might be even uglier if found, Howerth risked his life to save his deadly but still beloved serum, and was blinded for his pains. When a sudden and fatal epidemic broke out in one of Holtz's destitute mining towns, the few who knew what Howerth had been up to began to suspect that Holtz had taken over the experiment. While Howerth and his assistants worked feverishly to find an antivirus for the plague, Holtz wiped out his human liabilities by the thousand...
Warner Brothers have brought out a new one for their nondescript "Clue-Club" called "The Murder of Doctor Harrigan." The Doe is a nasty, surly fellow whom everybody is glad to be rid of. But he is stabbed to death in his own hospital, right under the noses of the "men and women in white," as everybody calls them nowadays. For this and sundry reasons the characters of the play feel it incumbent upon themselves to solve the crime...