Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goetz method, while drinkable, still has a high proportion of salts (e.g., about 4% of sodium citrate), has to be mixed with peppermint oil to kill the bad taste. The two Navy chemists- Lieut. William V. Consolazio and Lieut, (j.g.) Claire R. Spealman -claim that their process gets rid of all but a trace of salt (less than half of 1% sodium chloride) and produces water more palatable, more healthful than Goetz...
...advisability of point-to-point appeared when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...
...hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything put back together again...
...Ickes testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee. He spoke only for Mr. Lovett, an employe of his Interior Department. But the principles he championed applied to the cases of all three. He reminded the Congress that the Constitution laid down a regular procedure of impeachment, by which Congress may rid the government of misbehaving officials. For Congress to short-circuit the Constitution by withholding funds for an official's salary was, he declared, an encroachment on the rights of the Executive. In this case it was also nothing less than an unconstitutional condemnation without judicial trial...
...have proved its point: that a good deal of soap opera time is wasted. The Blue, when it was NBC's second string network, produced one of radio's first network soap operas (Little Orphan Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey...