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Word: quits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...going to quit? He would not say yes, he would not say no. But his eyes were obviously on the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTY: Tugwell Out? | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Independentistas, favoring immediate independence. They are led by Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who recently quit the Popular Democrats and his job as speaker of the Insular House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Jibaros' Man | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uncle Tom Steps Down | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...picked Harold Stassen as its new president, another announcement was lost in the shuffle. Simultaneously, Pennsylvania reported the resignation of its popular law school dean, Earl G. Harrison, who had been in line for the university's top job, and some of his friends guessed that Dean Harrison quit because Stassen got the job he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homegrown | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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