Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...originally in the Black Watch Regiment, in which Captain Jensen holds a commission, only three are now living. Captain Jensen himself has been wounded 11 times, and seriously affected by poisonous gases. He has, in fact come to this country in order to receive special treatment to rid himself of lung trouble that has been caused by these gases...
...send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help to the committee and will mean a better edited Album. The giving up of twenty minutes is surely not too great a sacrifice to ask of the busiest of Seniors...
Princeton set to work to get rid of these bad tendencies in preparation for the expected hard game with Dartmouth. That this preparation was necessary was shown by the close score of the game which Princeton was lucky enough to win, 7 to 3. One mis-sent Dartmouth forward pass, which Driggs intercepted and carried 65 yards for a touchdown, spelled victory for the Nassau team, although in the beginning of the game Dartmouth led by one field goal. The first score of the season against Princeton was made by Captain Gerrish, of the Hanover team, who kicked a placement...
...Wilson has maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico...
...opinion of the Harvard undergraduate body. For our nation--if any--should be capable of understanding Professor Russell's internationalism: it is we who are rightfully more and more assuming the attitude of champions of human rights as opposed to those of any one nation. Let us get rid of the old idea, which was so rapidly, passing over Europe before the war, except among the militarists, that political power exists merely to further the commercial and other selfish interests of one's own country. Professor Russell in adopting this view takes what might almost be called the American attitude...