Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impassioned public speech at Manchester, Mr. George declared: "It is a wretched business and it looks as if they had made up their minds to get rid...
...consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must get rid of the missile in the shortest possible time...
...desire. Anyone who considers the grudge unwarranted has my permission to go and rub himself on Hemenway and see how he likes the result. All I did was wrestle there for half an hour. That was a month ago and I am still trying to get rid of my little cargo of bugs. If I get blood poisoning and offer up an arm to the great god Impetigo, then I'm a martyr, I suppose. I'd rather have...
...from a discussion of the disused human brain in a New York Times interview yesterday, Dr. Stewart Paton of Princeton put no undecided finger on a type of modern educator that is heartily regretted everywhere, while at the same time there seem to be no immediate prospects of getting rid of him. "Are we generally interested in art and literature," asked Dr. Paton, "or are we primarily interested in finding an occupation where, unprotected by academic walls, we can live in an imaginary world far from reality?" Thus he voices the general suspicion that more than a few teachers...
Miss Brewster's Millions. If you had a million dollars and did not want it, you might be viewed with alarm. Bebe Daniels, in this film, did not and may be viewed with a great deal of amusement. She did not want it because if she got rid of it she could get five times as much from someone else...