Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
...standing before you two guys that didn't get into a House. We can't even get in a House, imagine that! Phil's all ready to quit college, says he's going to Rice Institute...
...QUIT-JAPANESE HEAR...
...York Times, who was spending Sunday in the park on foot. What followed while Sunday dinner waited must have been a busman's holiday because next day from Washington, on the eve of a meeting of the Committee for Industrial Organization, Sunday stroller Stark reported that I.L.G.W.U. would quit C.I.O. if it decided to call a convention to form a permanent organization...
...plus to 18 years. The average mental age was 15, which is higher than that of the adult population of the U. S. (13 years 6 months). Only two, however, had had schooling beyond the eighth grade. One of these had two years of high school and the other quit college during freshman year...