Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round, but Barnes was in the running, so were Mehlhorn and Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only a few months before to quit golf, Hagen, who had been beaten 18 up by Archie Compston in an exhibition match...
...page of good-natured humor, humorous satire, and one sentence summaries of world events in TIME, and I will quit the Digest. There are others who will do likewise. It would be in the interest of economy...
...athlete must have a purpose and a willingness to work and train for that purpose," declared Padock. "Courage and the determination, never 'to quit', are the prime requisites of a champion. And it is these characteristics in the American Olympic teams that have brought victory to the United States since the Olympic Games were resumed...
...what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...