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Word: quitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, he still shares with brother Jimmy an attic bedroom, a cluttered place littered with Bob's medical specimens (he once wanted to be a doctor like his father), his model airplanes, and a sign he once rescued from a rubbish heap: "A winner never quits and a quitter never wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Strength of Ten | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...Democrat that H. J. Blanton, 71-year-old editor of the Monroe County (Mo.) Appeal (circ. 2,996), was planning to retire. Indignantly the Globe wrote: "The newspaper [Blanton edits] is one of Missouri journalism's choice assets . . . We herewith and to his face call Jack Blanton a quitter, a fellow with a future who is deliberately passing it by to dally down the primrose path with a niblick in one hand, a fishpole in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When I Was a Boy | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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