Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hands for the Looms. Every year Dionne has trouble with his hands when summer comes. They quit and go back to the farm, that costs him money, for looms stop clanking, and production costs soar. Considering this problem, Dionne recently had an idea. Why not bring in D.P.s from Europe? He persuaded the Government at Ottawa to declare that "there is a shortage of textile workers in Canada" and to waive immigration rules. Then he headed for Europe...
...Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language. He had not yet heard of Stravinsky, and he had quit studying harmony after his first lesson, but he was using dissonance and rhythm, and thick, murky six-and eight-tone cluster chords in ways that were not recommended in the harmony books...
...Clay quit his $20,000-a-year job as general solicitor of the B. & O. soon after it went into bankruptcy in 1945 for failing to meet the terms of the loan. He charged that the bankruptcy was a "conspiracy" promoted by onetime RFC Boss Jesse Jones to keep RFC control of the road, put more RFC men in top B. & O. jobs...
...Washington, the U.S. Government regretted the incident too. The Army finds the upkeep of remote Roberts Field a nuisance that it would gladly be quit of. The State Department emphatically disagrees. It believes that the airfield should be maintained, just in case. It fears that Britain or France might gladly take over the job of running the field if the U.S. pulled out. Both regard U.S. influence in Liberia with discreet but definite displeasure. The State Department still hopes to get Army funds for keeping up the field. Still greater hopes are pinned on the Navy, which is building port...
...mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality), sometimes with humor and felicitous phrase, often...