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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were I financially able, I would take a new subscription every time a narrow-head quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Weisbord Has Offered To Quit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASSAIC STRIKE WILL END WITHIN A WEEK SAYS COLEMAN, LEADER OF RELIEF FORCE | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

From Mukden, Super -Tuchun Chang Tso-lin telegraphed a demand that the Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Karakhan, should immediately quit Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peking Falls | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...that one is right and the other wrong would be--in the present case--quit silly. After all, charity begins at home. But the truth of the matter might appear to lie in a synthesis of the two views. Prohibition may have helped--but not enough to justify its--function. To this probably neither would agree. The reformation prohibitional like the reformation protestant often befogs eyes otherwise very clear. Yet to add words to such a superfluity of verbiage as has already developed at Washington is certainly futile. Time and the taste of man eventually effect much. Reformers notwithstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROS AND ANTIS | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Tory Tension | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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