Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know a thing we can do about him," Randall said. "We thought of all sorts of ways to get rid of the owl quietly last year, but the University wouldn't hear of any of them...
...Hotel Nacional suite, Prío postponed official announcement of the deal and rallied his forces. Led by the conductors, whom Pawley had promised to keep on the job, the trolley union lined up behind the new plan. Straphangers enthusiastically supported Prío for forcing action to rid Havana of its noisy, run-down trolleys. The influential weekly Bohemia hailed Pawley as "one of the most distinguished figures in the U.S., whose various enter prises, including aviation firms in India and China, make his biography a true teaching in industry and social service...
...best way to get rid of acne scars, Plastic Surgeon William G. McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
...Western Europe until Western Europe can produce enough to exchange goods for dollars. ERP's first two years halved this dollar shortage, but officials say that Western Europe is still five years away from becoming dollar self-sufficient. Part of the trouble is Western European reluctance to get rid of trade barriers; Paul Hoffman, ERP's head, is threatening to withhold part of his aid unless the ERP countries do something about freeing their own trade...
...summer. Confined to artists under 40, it offered top prizes of $1,000 and $700, plus trips to the U.S., Rome and Paris, drew 3,600 entries. A ten-man inter national jury had hung only 175 of the canvases submitted, but prune as they would, they could not rid the show of its generally sterile atmosphere...