Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office. He prospered along with the company, became a part owner, grew rich and respectable. When U. S. Steel Corp. bought Carnegie Co. in 1901, he resigned as vice president and treasurer, quit business. Since then he has lived lavishly on his U. S. Steel investment which has multiplied many times in value...
...Will you stand up?" screamed Sharkey. "I can't Jack-you hit me low." Having made sure that Scott would not go on, Magnolia raised Sharkey's hand and gave him the fight, disqualifying Scott for refusing to fight. Said Gene Tunney, a spectator, "Scott quit." Said loquacious James Johnston, manager of Scott and friend of Manhattan's Mayor Walker: "First they send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes...
...Angeles, Judge Walter Guerin awarded a divorce and alimony to one Mrs. Grace Miller. Mrs. Miller's complaint : her husband would fight with her, always "quit." Husband Miller's defense: "A man can't get anywhere fighting with a woman...
...back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take charge...
...Quit your quarreling. Get down to work. Collect the taxes. Quit worrying about who will be nominated and who will be elected. Eliminate politics from this tax matter. Perhaps the assessment is not perfect. It would be wonderful if it was. I am not mixing in your local affairs; but let me tell you this; that you later will be asking for a special session of the legislature. When that comes, it will deal with taxes and nothing else...