Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bengali "So" means "farewell" or "I quit." A report of the East India Company misprinted the figure...
...interview. "Those teachers made me keep on taking Greek and Greek and more Greek until I just couldn't stand it any more, so I ups to the principal and says, "I can't do this stuff, I never wanted to, and still don't and never will. I quit this school right now, and to the devil with...
Year ago William Robert Crissey 2nd, 26, quit his job in a Philadelphia brokerage to carry out a $2,000 wager that he could, within a year, dine with Herbert Hoover, golf with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales...
Although the amount of money which he won ($6.200) was small enough to make the Long story credible, Agua Caliente stewards did not take the matter lightly. They suspended Baron Long, banned his horses at Agua Caliente. Last week, disgusted, he said he would quit racing "forever." Up for sale were the Long racehorses, his Rancho Valle de las Viejas, most pretentious stud farm on the Pacific Coast, valued...
...like the way your magazine clicked on young Mr. Cord. This human dynamo deserves everything you said about him. As far as some bluenoscs giving your rag the quit, you know this is a lot of bologny. This reason, well, where would they get the news as TIME gives it to them. ''Try and get it.'' A little dynamic expression will not harm the best of us. In fact, there is a lot of us that need a stick of dynamite set off under us these days...