Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except for occasional righteous outbursts, permitted her to fall for the "sales talk" of a few impractical dreamers, and gradually switch the governing of the country from the hands of those who know the futility of altruism to a class whose ideals are motivated by a desire to be rid of an oppressively progressive people...
...have tried to avoid the words 'wet' and 'dry.' Men labeled wet may be as much opposed to the saloon as men labeled dry. The saloon must not come back. The people of the U. S. are well rid...
...Yalemen Staples and Harney rid their minds of the idea that pornography connotes cheapness, showiness, vulgarity. TIME applied "pornographic" to Composer Stravinsky as it would to Writers D. H.. Lawrence or James Joyce.-ED. Thanks from India...
...Where the White House now stands was once called "foggy bottom," a malaria-infested swamp. At President Hoover's request, the Senate last week voted him $60,000 to rid the vicinity of mosquitoes...
Sick animals go lame. They also slobber at the mouth and smack their lips as though trying to get rid of something. The mouth is sore from the characteristic lesions of the disease. When animals are infected they must be killed and their bodies destroyed by fire or quicklime, else buried deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine...