Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai...
...nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner's, Esquire. "She's a first-class prodder," says Author Bezzerides...
...even oncourage boys to finish their college careers," Collins continued. "There's a young follow named Sayles on our ball club new who played on the Olympic nine as a Freshman. We agreed to help defray his college expenses, but he wanted to quit school right away. The coach at Oregon, that's where he was playing, came to our scout out there, all upset, and we influenced the boy to take another year at least...
...little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen-witted man in casual brown clothes, 43-year-old Artist Quintanilla had it in mind last week to quit painting again, go back to help his friends in Spain...
Afterwards, demanding a match with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling fight next September, irrepressible Max boasted: "I didn't quit, did I? I had to redeem myself and I did. Did Louis have Farr on the floor?* Did Braddock?* Well, Papa Baer...