Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces--those devoid of melody and manufactured in the lower recesses of the guttural regions--but on two occasions she lapses into rather tuneful songs and sings them in a light manner that is quite refreshing. All in all she is better than ever since she has also gotten rid of her penchant for wailing out the risque. There is little to find fault with in the show; the old spirit--the one that makes you feel that the actors are really enjoying themselves--is present in abundant quantities...
...sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade but gulps women. A month with one is always enough to slake Reinhold's thirst; then he has a terrible time getting rid of her. Biberkopf helps him by taking over his castoffs; for a time they are great cronies. One night Reinhold persuades Biberkopf to come out on a job. The simple fellow does not realize what is afoot; be fore he knows it finds himself standing watch over a burglary...
...return of the United Mine Workers of America, which other operators had driven out of Colorado after the Ludlow uprising (1914). She gave her men a tip-top wage scale-$7 per day. She set up company welfare agencies. She created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust of her colleagues in the coal business...
...with Chairman O'Connor, continued talking of "an adjustment, rather than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week U. S. Lines still owed the Government $11,250,000 representing...
First he pictures the living cell (normal or cancerous) and its system: 1) nucleus, 2) protoplasm, 3) semipermeable cell membrane, 4) environment (blood and tissue juices). From its environment the cell gets its energy-producing materials. Through its environment it gets rid of its wastes. Glycogen, or animal sugar, is almost the sole source of cell energy. In normal cells half the absorbed glycogen is oxidized, half turned to lactic acid. In cancerous cells, for every 13 glycogen molecules, twelve split up into lactic acid and one is oxidized...