Word: quiteness
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...even oncourage boys to finish their college careers," Collins continued. "There's a young follow named Sayles on our ball club new who played on the Olympic nine as a Freshman. We agreed to help defray his college expenses, but he wanted to quit school right away. The coach at Oregon, that's where he was playing, came to our scout out there, all upset, and we influenced the boy to take another year at least...
...little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen-witted man in casual brown clothes, 43-year-old Artist Quintanilla had it in mind last week to quit painting again, go back to help his friends in Spain...
Afterwards, demanding a match with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling fight next September, irrepressible Max boasted: "I didn't quit, did I? I had to redeem myself and I did. Did Louis have Farr on the floor?* Did Braddock?* Well, Papa Baer...
Bernard De Voto '18 will return to Cambridge to live next fall, according to a rumor steadily gaining credence in the College. Last month he resigned the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature, a position he had held since he quit Harvard...
...about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that he had outgrown his controversial gift, suggested it was time for him to quit, that he might now write "a superb work of the imagination on the scale of Anthony Adverse but incomparably better written and more soundly American...