Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cluttered office on the ground floor of the Pan American Union's exotic building in Washington, shock-haired Ernesto Galarza gazed thoughtfully through a dirt-dimmed window at the sunken gardens below. What he would do next, now that he had quit his job as Chief of the Union's Division of Labor & Social Information, he did not know. Nor did he care. He had made his point...
...boys who could distinguish bright primary colors but proved red & green blind on Army or Navy tests, two showed some improvement, eight quit after one or two treatments, but Dr. Cadan had good luck with 35. He lays his success chiefly to the electric current, thinks it strengthens and stimulates eye muscles and nerves, that it effects lasting improvement-some boys have continued to see colors well after eight months. Reason Dr. Cadan does not discontinue the other treatments and concentrate on electricity: "The boys I get are only two days ahead of the draft anyway...
...lean years losses totaled about $250,000. Both the Chinese and Japanese Governments frequently tried to win the Post's support by subsidy; Starr and Gould always retorted: "We'll quit publishing first!" Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese-supported regime in Nanking, once futilely ordered Starr and Gould deported. Through it all, by sticking rigidly to their pledge to "follow the American newspaper tradition of free speech," Starr and Gould finally lifted their fledgling publication into the black. By Dec. 7, 1941, they were averaging $35,000 a year net profit...
...effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take the name off, because it was considered an insult to the head of a friendly nation. A city detective roughed him up for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and told him to quit being a nuisance: "The only people who are harmed by Hitler are the Jews and Communists...
...trades, attended the first classes of the nine months course in the early morning of last September 30. They came directly from the factories and the shops, leaving their jobs as mechanics, glaziers, electricians and clothing workers. One of them held a degree of Master of Law, another had quit school...