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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty cases stop elder in serious condition stop claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retirement of Joe Forecast Becomes a Reality as the Famous Prognosticator Marries--Successor Sought | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

...ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...strike continued, an average of 30 bodies were received each day. After six days the unburied bodies totalled 249. Cemetery officials hastily collected strikebreakers. Many of them, kept ignorant of the nature of the work, quit when they found out. One man, who went to the cemetery with a steam shovel, left when he discovered he was strikebreaking. But 150 willing breakers dug 200 foot ditches to receive the caskets when the cemetery vaults (capacity 600) should be full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Strike | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sea Dogs Leashed | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...York City. In protest against "sweat shops" and outside non-union contract work, 25,000 women's garment makers quit work, picketed peacefully. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt called both sides to Albany for personal conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Orleans, et al. | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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