Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale and Princeton require all their undergraduates to pay $20, directly or indirectly, for the use of athletic facilities, while Harvard, on the other hand, has always charged only those men who use its facilities. A blanket fee at Harvard, which would incidentally get rid of some of the present red tape, would induce many of the men, who do not now exercise, to utilize the recreational opportunities which they have hitherto for one or another reason chosen to ignore or avoid. In particular a number of the Freshmen, who, after taking their year of free compulsory exercise, balk...
...glad that TIME "proposed no plan" for getting rid of our dog friends...
...Were treated to a speech by Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which he implied that it might be well not only for Great Britain to pay the U. S. in gold but to get rid of her gold to such an extent that sterling would become purely a managed currency...
...would get rid of him by taking a potshot at him at the first opportunity...
...part of their consent, General Electric and Westinghouse must get rid of their RCA shares which together equal 51% of the total. Within three months they will distribute half their RCA holdings to shareholders, disposing of the remainder within three years. The manufacturing companies will also withdraw their members from Radio's board. Previously the three companies licensed some of the pooled patents to outsiders (the minimum royalty rate was reduced from $100,000 to $10,000 after the suit began and the fee from 7½% to 5% of sales), but did not pay each other for their...