Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonard Lyons-Director Kaufman phoned to learn the worst. Todd chuckled: "We had 14 standees." Snapped Kaufman: "Say that slowly. I know you must be hysterical." Said Todd slowly: "Fourteen standees." "Send me the statement, verified," barked Kaufman. "And if what you say is true, then I'll quit show business...
...last year's 18 teachers, eleven did not come back. One grade-school teacher stayed, eight quit. Six high-school teachers stayed, three quit. The median teaching experience of the ten replacements is one and a quarter years (three and three quarters fewer than that of those who quit); the median age is 22 years...
...playing a game, the University of Washington i) has won the championship of the Pacific Coast Conference northern division, 2) is thereby halfway to the Rose Bowl. (The Huskies must beat the southern division champions, probably Southern California, to cinch it.) Reason: the other five teams, strapped for players, quit...
...years Fuller thus averaged two hours of sleep in 24. Result: "The most vigorous and alert condition I have ever enjoyed." Life-insurance doctors who examined him found him sound as a nut. Eventually he had to quit because his schedule conflicted with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men. Now working for the Foreign Economic Administration, Buckminster Fuller finds Dymaxion working and sleeping out of the question. But he wishes the nation's "key thinkers" could adopt his schedule; he is convinced it would shorten...
...Widows. Tooling up for roof-prism-making cost the amateurs from $100 to $200 apiece. They were mostly middle-aged business and professional men (including a gravestone manufacturer, a dentist, a candymaker) and spent most of their spare time at the job; a few became so enthusiastic that they quit their jobs to make prisms fulltime. Their pay: expenses, a small profit, and an incentive to ride a hobby as hard as possible. Cried one fanatic: "To hell with the money...