Word: rids
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game as a whole was very disappointing from the Harvard standpoint, for it showed that the team have not yet got rid of their slip-shod style of the past week, and that they can not hope to make a creditable record without a decided and immediate improvement...
...have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse was to drive many Cavaliers to oppose Berkeley, who in turn became more arrogant than ever...
...remedies for the present financial difficulties may be divided into two kinds, proximate and ultimate. The only proximate remedy is to get rid of some of the excess of currency. The best way in which to accomplish this would be to destroy the treasury notes of 1890. Something of this sort is going on, in fact. The U. S. treasury has begun to accumulate these notes and to store them away in vaults If the government had had a surplus revenue in 1893 and 1895 the solution of their difficulties would have been simple enough; for, after redeeming legal tender...
...thought, but in this they make a great error. The object of Civil Service Reform is two-fold; in the first place that the country should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
Many of the old superstitions are now found only among children. Yet a few exceedingly curious beliefs, survive among us at the present time, notably the superstition still found in some parts of New England, that rats can be got rid of by writing them a letter and leaving it where they can see it. The same belief was current among the Romans...