Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry Duell, no Indian, started out to run 90 mi. on an indoor track. After eating up 76 mi. in 9 hr. 15 min. he quit. Cause: leg cramp...
...opinion that if you do not quit your infidelity display the good people will quit...
...real successes are the great "Lincoln" in Washington* and the beautiful "Angel of Death." Industrious as a boy making mud pies, Daniel French has fashioned statues which appear in most large U. S. cities, made during the two and a half score years since he quit...
...details of baton wielding. Yet there was no disputing his interpretive ability, especially in rendition of the moderns. In rehearsal, he is known to have been exquisitely concerned with the most minute details of instrumental emphasis, phrasing, balance. His musicians were devoted. His audience was receptive. Yet he quit because the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra could not raise the $60,000 necessary to its continuance next year. With the season's end, he is at large...
...Morrow. (Dwight W. Morrow-looked upon by some as a likely Secretary of the Treasury should Mr. Mellon quit. At Amherst, in 1895, so runs the fable, everyone but one voted Morrow "most likely to succeed." Morrow voted Coolidge "most likely to succeed...