Word: quits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued that these children did their best under the system available in their towns and even if they were incompetent to pass the college board examinations, college should be open to them. Then it is up to them either to make good or be told to quit college...
Several other colleges have met the situation by introducing "big-time" football and placing it on a professional basis. As a result, gate receipts and educational endowments have gone hand in hand. The H.A.A. quite evidently intends to quit the roller coaster. John Harvard's athletes cannot let their legs get caught in the stocks of athletic receipts...
...Congressmen treated successful men as heroes. Today, in an improved state of national morality, the New Deal looks on tycoons with much the same disapprobation that Nazis look upon Jews. Few are the important businessmen who can quit a Congressional investigation without having their hair singed. Some have gone away without their scalps. Therefore it was an event when a wealthy businessman last week met Senators and departed not only with all his hair but with a Congressional wreath upon...
Blond, curly-headed James R. Collins was sitting around the restaurant at Roosevelt Field Hotel with other unemployed pilots, smoking, sipping coffee, jesting casually about his profession. Since 1929 when he quit as chief test pilot for Curtiss, he had been a free-lance specialist on power dives...
...Worcester will quit his post next September with the affection of both faculty and undergraduates, and with their hope that his new leisure will hold years of enjoyment...