Word: rid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will be acceptable that is not available to everyone, rich or poor. But the impracticability is more fundamental than this. The "guide" would have to turn away all who came seeking a short-cut to wisdom. And not content with thus reducing his revenue, he would have to get rid of his remaining clients in short order. The very purpose of "guidance" is to put the student on his own in the shortest possible space of time...
...Fanny Perkins was glad to be rid of Joe Strecker, she was sorely disappointed by the decision's effect on the even more troublesome case of C. I. O.'s Australian-born Harry Bridges. For the Court, in ruling out past membership in subversive organizations as a cause for ejecting aliens, definitely ruled in membership 1) at the time an alien enters the U. S., or 2) at the time deportation proceedings are begun. Thus the decision which was supposed to settle Alien Bridges' status increased the pressure on Secretary Perkins to seize him, convict...
...persons suffering from dropsy, a condition resulting from cirrhosis of the liver or certain types of heart disease. To relieve pain the patient's abdomen is tapped, and the fluid drained out. Often as much as 410 ounces is withdrawn, and the patient is glad to get rid...
...fasting before Communion): You can gargle, or use mouthwash, or brush your teeth before Communion, and you do not need to worry about getting rid of every drop. . . . The fast can only be broken by something digestible, so if you chew your fingernails, there is no need to worry...
...then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...