Word: quit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strikers in the Pacific Mills at Lawrence still remain firm, and more weavers are expected to quit work today. The Catholic clergy have advised the hands to return to work. A general lockout is said to be imminent...
...excuse is there for retrogression? Progress was anticipated, and has failed to be noted. And now the required work is to be thrown aside (for an attempt to do so is making) without a particle of sound reason for it. When Latin and Greek and Mathematics are ready to quit their claims to the position of required studies, then will it be time for English to withdraw, and not till then; then will it be right, and not till then. The time, indeed, has come for a decisive policy. Half-way measures have been tried and have failed. Therefore...