Word: quiteness
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...something like four tons of miscellaneous explosives equipped with electric detonators 200 feet long. In Madrid the Cabinet, dramatically convened, agreed with Premier Largo Caballero that they must take what they called "the terrible decision" to order the detonating buttons pressed. All citizens of Toledo were ordered to quit their homes lest they go up in the GRAND BLAST, advertised to kill every one of the 1,400 cadets and 400 women and children...
...build suitable barracks for them there and complete the strategic roads. Since Egyptian public opinion is exceedingly hostile to continued British occupation of the Citadel at Cairo-equivalent to occupation of the Tower of London by an alien military force-it was expected that the British would soon quit the Citadel and that this would be a popular feather in the fez of Premier Nahas...
Last week Dr. "Mike" got restless again. He was "bored by routine." "needed a change." Abruptly he quit Georgia Warm...
...were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race. This left Defender Howard with only six planes to beat...
...halfway mark, Typsters Sherry & Kolin glanced at the score board, saw they were falling far behind, got up and quit. For many years international typewriting contests were sponsored by Underwood Typewriter Co. but any manufacturer is glad to furnish a machine to contestants for the good advertising of having a champion use it. For several years Underwoods won. Then came Depression and the contests stopped. Last week's contest was run by International Commercial Schools Contest Association, and the three survivors, tearing the hearts out of their machines, were using Royals...