Word: quit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contractors refused to yield in any way to the demands of the strikers, and have engaged non-union men. No great trouble has been caused by the strike, however, and it is hoped to have the walls well up to the second story before it will be necessary to quit work on account of the weather...
...have the effect of winning the game from them then, they regarded it more as a curiosity than anything of importance in the game. The fact was that Mann was so much excited about his new delivery that he did not know when to quit, and after the Harvard men had noticed that the ball always turned about a foot outward after leaving the pitcher's hand, they made their calculations and hammered at it accordingly. The game, up to the fifth inning, was right in the hands of Princeton's catcher, who captured the men one after another...
...delivered, and that Mathews, the present "curver" for the Athletics, was the man who was doing it. Arthur Cummings, who played in the Mutuals of Brocklyn in 1872, and in the Stars of Brooklyn in the years proceeding, also was known to pitch a deceptive ball, but as he quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation. The reason for the curve is something that professional players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, any of them, can tell exactly how a ball...
...based, in the conception, and in the plan of their organization, upon the most perfect freedom. But we must not thin here of freedom of teaching in the modern sense. The majority was usually very intolerant of divergent opinions. Not unfrequently the adherents of the minority were compelled to quit the university in a body. This was not restricted to those cases in which the church intermeddled, and where political or metaphysical propositions were in question. Even the medical faculties-that of Paris, the most celebrated of all at the head-allowed no divergence from that which they regarded...
...shall have a large family, imagine Mrs. College standing on the front porch and yelling to her offspring : "Now, see heah, Dartmouf, how many times mus' yo' po' mudder tell you to frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack in de face...