Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
...father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
...date the team has twice met bad luck: first, when Appleton was forced to quit practice several days on account of sickness, and then again when Dan Ladd sprained his ankle in practice...
...publisher monopoly. Last week in Omaha, where the World-Herald has been all alone since the Hearst Bee News folded its wings last year. Russian-born Publisher David Blacker announced he was stepping up his weekly Post to a semiweekly, would make it a daily by January 1 "or quit." The Post was started two months ago after 25,000 Omahans took a chance and subscribed. It is said to be selling around 50,000 copies...