Word: quits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feared was Lucania, declared tall, handsome young Prosecutor Dewey, that the bondsmen promptly quit their business. Independent bookers were either driven out of the city at gun point or forced to join the syndicate...
...Godfrey quit the Art Students' League before the end of his second month. He did not want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German...
...Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World Champion Jose Capablanca to win the masters' tournament at Margate, England. Last month he quit his accountant's job in Manhattan to enter the national tournament...
...cooperation, it was observed that two apes would soon learn to work together on a rope to bring a basket of food within reach. When one wanted to quit work, he patted the other on the back...
...regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything but the always-imminent Revolution. He worked hard and well to make money, because he had to live and because Marx needed his financial support, and when he had made enough he quit...