Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic non-tenet of the world organization is to rid the world of the unfavorable association nihilism has received through various political actions in the 1870's. We are firmly dedicated to the non-belief that if any philosophy has the opportunity of becoming the belief of the 20th century, it is nihilism...
Student-owned hearses of all ages and descriptions were leaving Cambridge last night after Cambridge Police Captain Patrick J. McCarthy announced a drive to rid the streets of the vehicles. McCarthy's campaign was prompted by complaints from Cambridge residents, who said that the hearses were "depressing...
...even more radical flat tube under development by General Electric Co. gets rid of the vacuum, and it has no electron beam either. It consists of a sheet of "electroluminescent" phosphor that glows when it is excited by an electrical voltage. The phosphor is sandwiched between a matrix of horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming...
Once in Longfellow, Poggioli could not resist making another attempt to get rid of a few students. "This class," he said, "will meet promptly at 11:10. Supposing you come in after 11:10--if it isn't raining why don't you take a walk...
...Department of Agriculture, desperately trying to get rid of its butter without disrupting the markets of friendly nations, is cautiously excited about the great ghee plan. It might be the greatest idea in international farm trade since Mark Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers dreamed of a great sales organization-with its headquarters in Constantinople and its hindquarters in Further India-to sell patented eyewash to ophthalmia-ridden Orientals...