Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether it was right to gas the Jews is a debatable proposition. Maybe there were other ways of getting rid of them...
Hutchins wanted to rid universities of any sort of specialization. He said it made universities "mere housing projects for men pursuing unrelated studies without the needful intercommunication...
...that "dropping the discriminatory causes would return Harvard to a position where it could be respected as intellectually just and honest" seemed to me hardly worth making, since I understand that out of seventy undergraduate organizations only the SAE has such a specification, and the SAE is apparently getting rid of theirs. In effect, there aren't any discrimination clauses...
...shattered one day when she learns that her friends are unhappy because the "pimps" are taking over. (The pimps, explains the Rag-picker, are the parasites and non-productive members of society--presidents and vice-presidents of corporations, to be specific but non-inclusive,) The Countess sets out to rid Chaillot of such wickedness, which she manages to do in short order, there being "nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." How she accomplishes this, and the introduction it affords to the Countess' world...
...this relationship is honored every 22nd of September on Forefathers' Day; though I fear that they let off many more rockets on June 17 to honor the Battle of Bunker Hill, on which date pious Aeneas is believed to have begun a successful war of independence to get rid of the old man on his back...