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Word: rid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organ ? "It was the Mighty Wurlitzer itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed him to have piano lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Central has already put up 400 of its stations for sale, and many other roads want to get rid of their terminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW AGE OF RAILROADS | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Heaven. "We must first rid our minds of every concept of time and space as we know them," says Author Sayers. Time and space are created entities, part of the universe that was made by God the way an author writes a book containing its own time and space and people. The universe, like the world of the book, is only relatively real-true reality is the Maker. The souls of men are "capable of entering into the true Reality which we call 'Heaven' or 'the presence of God.' So that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystery Story | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Elliot asked him on the latter issue if he didn't believe that Red China should be excluded on moral grounds. Gaitskell replied, "Then do you propose getting rid of the Soviet Union...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Active Support of U.N. Proposed by Gaitskell | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

Break, Haggle & Roll. In Cincinnati, Used-Car Dealer Don Melch touted 17 cars, got rid of five in one day after he advertised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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