Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over the sea), had not arrived at Midway Islands. Neither Schlee nor Brock is a navigator. Aviation experts all over the world regarded the jump as certain suicide. Scores of protest-cables awaited the flyers in Tokyo. Said Mr. Brock: "We quit because the entire world is fighting us." There was another possible reason for their quitting. They had flown 12.275 miles in 19 days; there re- mained 9,847 miles to be flown in 9% days if they were to wreck the present record of 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...FASHION section in TIME, I QUIT...
...lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last week with a declaration of intentions. In them may be traced the influences of a career that included free-lance writing, editorship of the Western Electric...
...said little. Governor-Candidate Alfred E. Smith of New York said nothing. George E. Brennan, boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
...hotel room the day before the 1922 State Convention, Governor Smith risked political extinction, defied his organization, and said he would not run on the same ticket with the man who had accused him of withholding good milk from the bottles of East Side babies. Tammany wavered. Mr. Hearst quit the field and in so doing dismissed himself forever as a factor in New York and national politics...