Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the free importation of Filipino sugar menaced their industry. Senator King of Utah (beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided. U. S. husbandmen producing vegetable oils warmed to the idea of Philippine independence. Their Congressmen lustily cheered the proposal last month in the House...
...Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...
...because it is getting to be the fashion for young men to write their autobiographies but because he wants to get rid of a ghost, Poet Robert von Ranke Graves has tried to say goodbye to all that has happened...