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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BOUGHT (STOP) AMERICAN MORALE REACHING NEW HIGH SINCE ADVENT OF YOUR COLUMN (STOP) FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND YOURS IF YOU QUIT (STOP) A.-HITLER...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flangs and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

...teachers quit teaching, some 18,000 schools closed, more than 41,000 took on substandard teachers and had to put up with them for years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: Teachers, Pupils | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Rest twice a day; doze at every opportunity; quit work at 3:30 or 4; take frequent but not long vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Down Blood Pressure | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Frank Sinatra bought himself back from Swingster Tommy Dorsey, who had owned a third of him for nearly a year. When the singer quit Dorsey's band last October, he bought off his contract by signing over a third of his earnings-to-come for the next ten years. For full title to himself, the crooner last week paid more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Paul Hoffman has always bet on winners -big winners. First, it was the automobile. As a boy, he learned about cars from a decrepit secondhand Pope-Toledo that he heckled his inventor-father into buying. When Paul quit the University of Chicago at 18, he began selling autos in Chicago by the simple but unusual method of driving one up Michigan Avenue and not returning until he had sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Limited Objective | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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