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Word: quite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Education section of the Oct. 16 issue carried statements from an article written by a Harvard undergraduate censuring Harvard's President Conant for his policies in the "hiring & firing" of young faculty members. Aside from several errors in the TIME story, among them that Professor Burbank quit the University (he did not), it seems to me that the story fails to make a fair attempt to present both sides of a controversial issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...tell you. I'm an American of German origin. Like Hitler I'm a poet, and no editor pays any attention to my manuscripts. But I'm German enough to keep at it until I've had my say and then I'll quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Charley Devens was the only Crimson athlete in the modern era who became a full-fledged big leaguer; and he quit baseball shortly after he got into the big show. Maybe Lupien will give Harvard another big timer some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupien Sparked Scranton Nine To League Win, Claims Collins | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

While the impetuous Chrysler was wandering from roundhouse to roundhouse in the west at the turn of the century, always able to find a job, always quick to quit it when he had a row with the boss, purposeful K. T. Keller was a high-school boy in Mount Joy, Pa. Symbol of Walter Chrysler's youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...engineering department where Chrysler's smart research staff is already busy on 1941 models. It is there the first work is done on K. T. Keller's only recipe for a successful business: "Put out a good product: if it's lousy, you better quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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