Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statistics, he declared that Louisville's rate of population growth had increased eight times in the last ten years, that its factory output had doubled, that its property values had almost trebled. Declared he: "Ninety per cent of Louisville's prosperity is due to the fact that we got rid of the blasting, blighting liquor business...
...Great Falls, Mont., Art Leweke got rid of a hungry golden eagle by tying to its tail a toy balloon, a brass bell...
...please the drys, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets," and stating with commendable simplicity that "the majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the (prohibition) law," The Harvard Crimson has enlisted the aid of the Harvard Debating Council in a crusade to rid the country of the existing enforcement laws for the Eighteenth Amendment. The debators have formulated their own "plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," and the journalists are laboring mightily to crystallize undergraduate opinion behind a definite plan of prohibition reform...
Warm blooded animals accommodate themselves efficiently to changes in temperature. They are continually manufacturing heat themselves and getting rid of it. Thus they maintain normal temperatures. The smaller the animal the higher is likely to be its body temperature. Temperature of a mouse is 105.8°, rabbit 102.0°, dog 100.0° to 102.0°, man 98.6°, horse 96.8° to 98.6°. Children are about one degree warmer than adults...
...public lavatory just opposite a café. When the proprietor objected to this juxtaposition, M. Castel-Benac charged him a fat sum for haulage, then moved his lavatory down the street and established it opposite another café. But M. Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year...