Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conductor Leopold Stokowski made sad little speeches, appeared deeply hurt. Curtis Bok, president of the Orchestra Association, asked the entire orchestra board to resign. When the board objected, Mr. Bok and his very rich mother, who is the daughter of the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis, quit...
...thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second, his motor quit, forced him to make a dead-stick landing after 150-m.p.h. gales had chipped paint from his plane, torn rivets out of place...
Geneva, Dec. 9--Jugoslavia has threatened to quit the League of Nations unless the Council condemns Hungary for her alleged complicity in the assassination of King Alexander I, the United Press learned tonight...
...inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first to quit the scene of battle, never again ventured out to seek a general engagement. England's Grand Fleet, though never used as a unit in battle, was still unchallenged mistress of the seas...
...publicity. Wealthy at 45, he pooh-poohs the suggestion that he has demonstrated the safety & dependability of aviation, likes to say: "I've done it because I get a kick out of it. I just got in the habit of flying every day and I haven't quit. When I get tired of it, I'll drop...