Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team was losing, annoyed because Jones regarded as unethical the deceptions practiced in other colleges to produce winning teams. With William Roper, equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other's teams. In 1925 and 1926 when he had bad teams, Jones refused to quit. He held on till 1927, when his team beat Brown, Army, Dartmouth, Maryland, Princeton, Harvard. Yale football graduates remember with a smile one of his characteristic dressing room before-the-game orations: "You stand by me. and I'll stand...
However, Bishop Manning was not without defenders. Said Ernest Vincent Shayler, P. E. Bishop of Nebraska, England-born (like Bishop Manning): "If some New York papers would quit Bishop-baiting, if some Episcopal clergy would quit ecclesiastical rowdyism and some Protestant ministers cease strife-making, you would have a better atmosphere in New York...
...grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck his head in the water heater, turned on the gas. He was found, revived...
...special assistant to prosecute War frauds. He helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next month...
...ambition. And thus, as John Doeg began to win, it was altogether a distressing afternoon for Tilden. Time and again the latter stopped play to wait for the gallery to quiet itself. Finally Doeg, a youngster the like of whom has kowtowed to Tilden for years, suggested that they quit bickering and play tennis. In the second set Tilden fell trying to recover a shot. After that he hobbled around, glowering, displaying occasional samples of the brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine...