Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That is one of the reasons," shouted Senator Heflin, "why they wanted to get rid of Jess Smith...
...Island, 219 men and 147 women- lean as gulls, most of them, some with red patches under their nostrils ("snowbirds," "sniffers") some with their forearms and thighs pockmarked with infected needle-sores; some sent to the narcotic ward by prison authorities, some self-committed in an attempt to get rid of their addiction-took the narcosan treatment. The solution is injected with a hypodermic syringe. The lipoids in narcosan neutralize toxic substances. The proteins stimulate new blood formation. This, at all events, is the theory of the way in which it works. The facts of its effect are simpler...
...manage it for them, someone to coach, for the young American does not care to play his own game; they want to furnish the bulk and they are run into the machine with someone else in charge. We all know who runs the games, who must be gotten rid of, if the games are lost. In all college papers we find editorials as to whether a certain individual should be gotten rid of or retained next year. It is easy to determine where the responsibility lies as to games, and the same applies to studies. It is terribly hard...
...patent application filed for every thousandth inhabitant-110,000 in a year. The Office found itself with 58,000 applications still on the docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast accumulation of working models. Some 50,000 designs patented prior to 1880 were turned over to museums; sime 2,500 were returned to heirs; several thousand were sold at public auction...
These defenders of national vanity, such as Mr. Boyd, are cheering souls. But for them the average citizen might be tempted to seek the river and thus rid himself of it all. Having psycho-analyzed its condition, mental and economic, for the last decade, the nation may now turn to the business of convalescing from its shame. To be an American does not always mean to be a boorish wretch,, unconscious of the higher things in life. Without degenerating into flagwaving one may easily endure a comparison of the United States with its most caustic critics...