Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with their military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With him I have no quarrel, for I hear that in his heart he too wants to get rid of the Bolsheviks. Only two Chinese parties would then face each other across the Yangtze, and it should not be hard to establish a great laborious country, peaceful and blessed by the Gods...
...Hoovers, of course, consider their sweeper the best of all. They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars finding out just where dirt accumulates in carpets and the best way of getting such dirt out of carpets. And they have their machine to get rid of that dirt. Many a judge of housework has approved the Hoover. Thousands have bought it. It had never been entered in a contest, before the Sesquicentennial Exposition, without gaining the best prize offered. These tests and exploits are described in a volume, Hoover?The Story of a Crusade...
...Lardner has not shirked a single chance to rid himself of the reputation for "depth" which jealous fellow-writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...
...Orient troubles rid...
...increasing tendency of Harvard to rid itself of local limitations as to student registration is made clear by a statistical statement of the facts in the report of the Associated Harvard Club's Committee on Schools. This report, which will be read at the meeting of the Associated Clubs in Memphis three weeks hence, shows that whereas in 1900 New Englanders outnumbered students from any other section of the country by more than three and one half to one, in 1925 the ratio was less than two and a third...