Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell...
...when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head...
...suggesting any anti-Italian or pro-Ethiopian action of a virile nature. Orator Eden announced for the British Government this unpretentious objective: "We must at this time maintain the League of Nations in existence." In quarters close to Haile Selassie it was said that he was being pressed to quit Great Britain, probably would go to live in a villa he owns in Switzerland, if Italian pressure is not exerted on the Swiss...
...Talk At Thirty," Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well as the horror. Tell...
Automobile drivers have their own language. In it "heavy-footed" means not slow but fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer...