Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies of National Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising 2 ft. an hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt...
...motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department of Justice, although duties wished...
...many lovers of TVA would be grieved, for when he started in 1933, he was able to gather an unusually able engineering staff about him both because of his personal reputation and because Depression had deprived most engineers of jobs. Many of his staff could be counted on to quit with him and they could not be replaced. More important, however, if Arthur Morgan should quit, those persons would be grieved who would like to see the breach between the utilities and the New Deal healed. If Mr. Lilienthal should quit those would be grieved who would like...
...remember being very worked up about the problem in hand and refusing to quit till I had my say. I was very doctrinaire in my defense of the (I suppose) obscurantist position that it all didn't amount to that. That progress was a myth and science just encouraged it to be one that we had been better off hundreds of years ago when people had never heard of progress and never stopped their plowing for a minute to think of it. That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them...
...Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official are suspended by the Dutch merrymen in the bucket...