Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of this opposition, the U. S. delegation, last week, quit Geneva, entrained for Paris en route for Washington, washed its hands of the conference. China followed suit...
Hughes was next to quit...
...hours later. Three runners leapt forward; fast they went, though they had a mile and three-quarters to go. In front was a light skinny one, this Nurmi; behind him came Joie Ray, Fred Liewendahl. Lap after lap they padded. At the tenth they were only two; Liewendahl had quit. At the twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into the arms of an admirer. Nurmi's time...
...live. There must be a division of functions. It the man of today wants to know both how to live and to make a living, he must study both, and we doubt if there can ever be an institution that can teach both. Let our colleges quit this half-hearted attempt at supplying the popular demand for practicality. The humanities in learning have their distinctive values let the business school teach the art of making fifty thousand a year...
Last week, Collier's published an article at the hand of Mr. Barton: What Difference Does It Make? Mr. Barton declared that he had "almost quit reading newspapers" and in so doing had added 30 minutes a day to a life which he appears to relish keenly. At one time, he had felt it incumbent upon him, as a well-informed man, to consume one entire newspaper both morning and evening-glutting up all the stories about box victims, drink-mad stabbers, love-cult brides, modern Bluebeards, poisoned toadstools ,and incendiary spinsters together with more important social and political...