Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something of a surprise to Alcoa. In 1945, a U.S. circuit court of appeals had found that Alcoa was a prewar monopoly but withheld judgment on its postwar status until all Government-owned aluminum plants were disposed of. Alcoa shrewdly did what it could to help the U.S. get rid of them. It turned over to the Government its patents on the extraction of alumina (the raw material for aluminum) from low-grade bauxite, thus making it possible for the Government to sell and lease aluminum plants to Reynolds Metals Co. and Henry Kaiser...
Harlow took over in 1935. He was plenty able, but the flotsam and jetsam he found on Soldier's Field were too much for anybody to get rid of in a year. So Harlow lost to Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army, Princeton, and Yale in his first season...
...dealers in seed pearls and chip diamonds, and, naturally, by the ketchup industry. [But] the principal beneficiary [is] the executive secretary ... of the national fraternity itself. It's a life job, and because no one really knows how [he] got it, there is no ready way of getting rid of him . . . [His] entire life is spent in confecting doleful yet enthusiastic appeals for funds...
...wisest thing to do is to get rid of your distribution requirements in the freshman year. That way, you will have a whole year to make up your mind about a field of concentration. General Education courses will both satisfy distribution rules and help you select your future field...
...opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss Leeds...