Word: rid
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...editorial lauded the President for "turning his back on the 'wisdom' of President Eliot" who had in 1909 called for a rational faith without metaphysical rites. Pusey's statement Wednesday had been that "He (Eliot) was wrong . . . in urging his generation to get rid of what he called 'paganized Christianity' by eschewing metaphysics and by escaping into a formless empyrean of good will." Pusey recommended instead a firm grasp and fresh understanding of what he called "first things...
...barely at 25,000, Northcliffe decided the paper was a "mad frolic" because "women can't write, and don't want to read." He ordered his editor to fire the staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid experience-like drowning kittens. They begged to be allowed to stay. They left little presents on my desk, waylaid me tearfully in the corridors." But the change worked. By 1914, when Northcliffe took vigorous personal control...
...year. To dispose of this huge surplus, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John H. Davis last week asked the Tariff Commission to recommend a 7?-a-lb. additional duty on imported wool. With this protection, Davis hoped that the CCC could avoid any new wool purchases this year, and perhaps rid itself of half its old holdings. Wool growers, who wanted something more like the 16? proposed last year, said they were "stunned" by Davis' request. Despite the present 25½? wool tariff, imports have been making steady headway in the U.S. wool market, accounting for 71% of domestic consumption...
...Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady . . . If I don't get along with her, I reckon I can get rid...
Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...