Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear said, 'But look what Crump has done for us. All the nice parks.' Other cities and states have parks without the help of Crump and the poll tax. Other states have fine schools where a splendid education is offered without a politician being mentioned. . . . Missouri rid itself of Pendergast. Why can't the same thing be done here...
...simplest divorce Babs had been through yet. It had taken her nearly three years to get rid of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, her No. 2 boy, and six weeks in Reno to shake Prince Alexis Mdivani (of "the marrying Mdivanis"), her first husband. Hollywood gossips said that No. 4 was already waiting in the wings...
Obviously, the remedy was to separate the active U-235 from natural uranium, getting rid of the U-238. It was simple in principle, like drying the water content out of a sodden fuel. But the physicists shuddered when they finished their calculations. No chain reaction, they found, could take place in a small bit of U-235, but a large enough chunk would surely explode...
GENERAL MOTORS CORP. G.M.'s problem is typical of all auto manufacturers. It needs new machine tools, must rid its plants of heavy war machinery. (Pontiac has long been mapping its new-assembly lines-). G.M. must also accumulate a huge supply of raw materials (steel, textiles, etc.) in a fiercely competitive market. Once these problems are licked, G.M. has high hopes for the future. Its ultimate employment goal: 400,000 factory workers (1939 high: 201,000); 200,000 distributors (1939 total...
...Revise Britain's foreign policy in order to rid the world of the "faded monarchies and obsolete social systems" of Europe...