Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe I speak for every "real" boy and girl in the U. S. when I say: "Quit getting grey hairs worrying about us and see what can be done about the world we're growing...
...years ago the Governor of Bermuda quit because he couldn't have a car. Last week his successor, Lieut. General Sir Denis Bernard, fell off his bicycle and hurt his head...
...possessing them; we finally demonstrated our determination to be finished with them. We don't really want them today, but also we don't want to upset the status quo in the Far East, and strengthen Japan's hand. So we may never be 'quit of them...
Following his older brothers Jimmy (captain with the Marines at San Diego, Calif.) and Elliott (captain in Army air procurement at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio), 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. quit his job as a Wall Street lawyer, prepared to leave wife and small son, report as ordered April 3 for service as ensign of the Naval Reserve, aboard the destroyer Mayrant. Next day, fourth and youngest son John, 25, convalescing at the White House after a minor operation, got a commission too-as ensign in the Navy supply corps. His probable first assignment upon being called...
Boss of Reynolds Metals is chunky, thin-haired, alert Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of the founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. He quit the tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops...