Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...
...with a moonish, almost childish face flew his single-engined Beechcraft airplane from New York to Boston, where he huddled with savants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His incisive understanding of their experiments with a new radio tube left them speechless, unable to believe that he had quit school when he was 13. That night he flew back to New York, repaired immediately to the Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word or even a look of recognition. Ignored...
...point: "To those who say this cannot be done, the reply is simple-at least let us try, and if we fail, that ends our effort. . . . [The Germans] kept these agreements in the last war but if they do not do so again, then we have failed and we quit...
...Read it for pleasure only. If it displeases you, quit...
...German influence" was Trustbuster Thurman Arnold's way of fighting Hitler with headlines. When the New Deal debated last summer whether to quit its trustbusting efforts for the duration of the defense effort, Thurman Arnold changed his tactics. Instead of attacking trusts for sins against a free economy, he attacked them for sins against defense. To reporters he talked darkly about patent monopolies through which German firms were holding up prices and production in the U. S. He talked particularly about magnesium, in which Aluminum Co. of America holds important patents jointly with the famous I. G. Farbenindustrie (German...