Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time getting served. If the summer recess began in the middle of May, the Harvard unemployed would not be handicapped in the race for the better paying summer jobs. School could then begin earlier in September. Since many summer jobs end after Labor Day, and since many college students quit their jobs for tax reasons before the summer is over, this arrangement would be more advantageous to most students. Also higher wages during the summer would mean greater financial independence for the student and consequently less strain on the scholarship and loan funds...
...eight, when Sharaku drew him, the little athlete weighed 180 Ibs. and boasted a 47-inch waistline. Sharaku showed him charging belly-on toward the spectator and squinting in delighted anticipation of the coming collision with his opponent. Daidozan never fulfilled his large promise, for he quit the ring at a mere...
...Absolute baloney!" roared rambunctious Patrick Benedict McGinnis last week to a report that he was leaving the presidency of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Less than five hours later, McGinnis ate his baloney, said that he would quit his $75,000-a-year job because a "splinter group" of New Haven directors did not like the way he was running the railroad...
...year, the first Budget Director was so thoroughly in control that he had inspired cuts of $1.7 billion in Government expenses from the preceding fiscal year. Then, with the pattern set (he hoped), he quit as he had said he would, "for I detest this life ... As one who must be used to upset the status quo, I am not the logical man to continue the operation of the Budget Bureau...
...been one of the Times's most respected Washington correspondents. Testifying in the marble-columned chamber where he had often worked at the press table, Knowles pleaded "extreme naivete" in having joined the Communist Party in 1937 while working for the Long Island Daily Press. He quit two years later...