Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sateen Wings. Though Orville was four years younger, he and Wilbur had worked as a team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where...
Miss Steinert, who was assigned to do the Petrillo personality, spent four hours with him straightening out such items as his schooling ("I was still in the fourth grade after nine years, so I quit"), his phobia for germs ("Only it's not like Winchell says. I open them doorknobs without the Kleenex...
...Hawkes's place, they nominated as their candidate David Van Alstyne, 51, OF Englewood, majority leader in the state senate and wealthy Wall Street broker. But Hawkes did not want to quit. Crying "a threat to our free primary system," he announced that he would run anyway...
Graduate, Quit Learning...
...from profanity because Mrs. Fairbanks [a friend] desired it. I stopped drinking strong liquors because you desired it. I stopped drinking all other liquors because it seemed plain that you desired it. I did what I could to learn to leave my hands out of my pantaloon pockets and quit lolling at full length in easy chairs, because you desired it. There was no sacrifice about any of these things...