Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family should be hearing about me entering the Air Force any day new," said Patterson. "I wrote them yesterday. Yes, I just up and quit school for this...
...Instead of making a profit for 1939 our company lost a lot of money. We think our company lost money because so many grocers quit handling Hillbilly flour because dad was trying to get some kind of a tax bill* passed so the State could pay pensions to the old folks. . . . But we had a big surprise coming...
...weather will quit being so typical of New England, Harvard should have a successful tennis season this year. Blessed with a number of seasoned veterans in his second year as Varsity Coach, Jack Barnaby has been hampered by cold winds and damp courts. And the matches scheduled last weekend with Columbia and Pennsylvania were unfortunately rained...
...corrupt U. S. cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
...burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...