Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychological reasons, did better than a third group which got no pills at all. In the second six months, the vitamin-fed group pulled ahead. (Conclusion: taking extra vitamins usually shows no results for at least six months.) They had 19% less absenteeism, 27% less turnover (i.e., fewer quit or were fired); they also scored 2.6% higher in the company's merit ratings...
About V-E Day. There Steve Early, who seemed destined to handle at least one more big newsbreak before he quit, told hastily gathering newsmen to stand by. The President, he said, is preparing a proclamation. "Will it be about V-E day?" he was asked. "Not exactly," he answered, "but something like it." Radiomen were told to hook up their microphones at the White House for the reading of the proclamation...
Since the present law expires June 12, it was plain that soon the U.S. Congress would have to quit doodling and face the issue. It was equally plain that on the tariff Harry Truman would face his first big test in Congress...
Terror and Force. Adolf tried to reason with his fellow bricklayers. "I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force." He was learning fast. Hitler was given the choice of quitting the job or being tossed off the scaffold. He quit. He also took to reading Socialist literature and attending Socialist meetings to find out what it was all about. His researches led him to a conclusion that was to blossom later into the horrors of concentration camps like Maidenek, Buchenwald and Dachau...
...Confederate soldier, he went to small North Georgia College at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. He quit his first reporting job on the Atlanta Constitution "because they weren't paying me enough money; they paid me nothing." Eight years later, after working on smaller Georgia papers, he was invited back to the Constitution-as the boy-wonder managing editor, aged...