Word: quite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Durant?" Five hundred men rose up, boomed loyally: "Yes." "Second, do you believe that W. C. Durant would be unfair or unjust ... to men who have been loyal to him for years . . . through every trial?" The Durant legion shouted denial. Then Mr. Durant announced he would quit the presidency (not his stock control) of Durant Motors...
...family, he married his sweetheart, Lottie Kaufman, in the Temple, and shortly afterward quit furs and bought a penny arcade in Manhattan. Later, when he had shown a profit running "Hale's Tours," one of William A. Brady's projects, he went home to Ricse for a visit and was received by the Mayor and the Town Council...
...fill two lesser jobs on Judge, Editor Shuttleworth sent queries to 82 college wits, contributors to the Cheer Leaders department. He got Si replies, and most of the collegians were willing to quit school at once if they were offered desks...
...Brazilians believe that he invented the airplane before the Wrights. And, because the U. S. this month is honoring the Wrights' 25th anniversary of flight (to which Brazil is sending no official representative), those good Brazilians organized a celebration of their own. They insisted that Senhor Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles, as an early (1906) builder & flyer of an airplane; popular reputation as a feeder of Paris' poor...
...overlooked in those days, but Grant's must have been more than considerable, for he drank himself out of the army, thereby blundering upon the road to fame. If he had stayed in the army, which he detested and disapproved but hadn't the initiative to quit, he would have had a conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free...