Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Cradle babies are well babies is not a matter of chance. In 1927 a nationwide epidemic of summer dysentery pushed the Cradle death rate up to over 12%. Twenty-seven infants died. Desperate, Mrs. Walrath was ready to quit. But she had reckoned without a great & famed Evanston friend...
Disgruntled former Nazis who have quit or been purged out of the Party, and have no further use for brown shirts, have sold so many to a Swabian old-clothesman named Pius Degenhart that last week he staged an auction at Memmingen, was promptly jailed for "dishonoring the National Socialist Party uniform...
...self-assured youth of 18, George Edward Buchanan saved up a little money, begged a little more from his widowed mother, a little more from his boss, quit work in favor of a trip to Europe. Subsequently he made a small fortune selling coal to Detroiters. Having left school early, he says he got his education by ''going and seeing things." Twelve years ago, convinced that it is a good thing for boys to go and see things, he rounded up a trainload of youngsters, set out to show them Alaska. Every summer since then Mr. Buchanan...
...dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...
Lawyer & Client. The newspaper world feels that a great publisher was lost when "Jack" Neylan, who looks like a well-groomed Abraham Lincoln, quit the San Francisco Call ten years ago to become general counsel for Mr. Hearst and all his enterprises. He had negotiated Hearst's purchase of that newspaper in 1919, taking the job of publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint...