Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated the unemployment compensation cost at $8 billion for three years. (Others put it much higher.) While many Senators privately agreed that $8 billion would be cheap enough if it did avert a major depression, they had no confidence in New Deal management; they suspected the U.S. would get rid of $8 billion without getting rid of depression...
...lower left corner of page 17 of the Cleveland News appeared a two-column patent medicine testimonial from a Mr. Alexander Kellough, of 2508 Morris Black Place, who rejoiced to find himself now rid of backache, insomnia, sour stomach and gas pains, and enthusiastically concluded: "Giljan is a wonderful medicine. Any person with trouble such as mine should lose no time in taking...
This fall the house and barn will be wired for electricity. Then the Walls will get rid of the smelly kerosene lamps, and out of her egg money Carolyne will buy an electric refrigerator-if she can find one. Joe might put a small radio in the barn so that he can hear music and news programs while he milks. Eventually the Walls will buy an electric washing machine, and a tractor to spell the mules...
...India shall be a nation! No foreigners of any sort! . . . Clear out, you fellows, double-quick, I say. We may hate one another but we hate you most. ... If it's fifty-five hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then" -he rode against him furiously-"and then," he concluded, half-kissing him, "you and I shall be friends...
...list of social reforms, and the exiled Government has agreed to many of them. But on one point there is deep disagreement. Belgium's dominant political group, the conservative Catholic Party, is firmly committed to the monarchy. Almost to a man, BeHan Socialists want to be rid of Leopold. They do not mind having a king, but they have had no use for Leopold since his surrender...