Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened to the treatment with the patient's own blood? When I had acne as a boy in Vienna, my physician used to give me a shot of an antistreptococcic agent every other day, and between days, injections with my own blood. After two months I was practically rid of the acne...
GENERAL ANILINE & FILM, richest enemy firm seized by U.S. in World War II, is on the block. SEC accepted the Justice Department's registration statement for sale to private U.S. iavestors of 80% of stock in $160 million company. Department hopes to get rid of its holdings despite suits by 1,500 foreign shareholders to block sale...
...whole rent-controlled generation who remember the old tales of wicked landlords, Laborites plastered the walls of North Lewisham with ominous broadsides (CAN I LOSE MY HOME? CERTAINLY . . .). The government's answer, as officially phrased by Candidate Farmer, is that decontrol is the "logical first step in getting rid of the housing shortage." The Tories' main hope lies in getting the bill passed as soon as possible to prove its long-range benefits...
What the Teamsters had brought on themselves and on unified labor in general was an all-out drive by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council to rid its house of crooks and gangsters before Congress acts to expose them. Chief provocation was the Teamsters' recent defiance of the Senate 1) by refusing to cooperate with a subcommittee inquiring into labor racketeering, and 2) by assuring all officers that the union would not punish them for pleading the Fifth Amendment if called to testify (TIME, Feb. 4)-a defiance which contributed to the creation by the Senate last week...
...might have been expected, the press ignored the palace plea to respect Charles's privacy. To get rid of the mob on the second day, Headmaster H. S. Townsend had to announce that the famous New Boy would not show up. But cameramen had already given the delighted nation a glimpse of the future King of England scuffling about the playing field just like any other boy his age. It was, exulted the London Daily Mail, further evidence "of the growing democratization (horrid, inescapable word!) of the throne...