Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might hold, a Nazi bridal bonus is inaugurated. All newly married couples are granted a loan of 1,000 marks without interest, repayable at 1% of the principal monthly. Only conditions for the loan are that the bride must have been employed for six months before marriage, must quit the job and promise to take no other so long as her husband receives a minimum income of 125 marks ($34) monthly. All the money for the bridal bonus will come from a tax on the bachelors and spinsters of Germany...
...lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going to quit racing and go back to California. Six minutes later, Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis sputtered across the line for second place, and after him Lou Moore of Los Angeles...
...Capital would be extremely difficult to raise for the multitude of middle-sized honest companies. Thus most middle-sized bankers would quit the underwriting business...
...Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early to have tea, rest their minds, study. Next day-a hot day -they moiled over discontinuous functions, convergent series, polar coordinates, second derivations. The finished papers were turned over to Professor Dresden at Swarthmore College. He was to announce results in ten days. Coaches for both teams agreed that...
...degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit his job as assistant editor of the Herald Tribune to take Editor Woods's place...