Word: quiteness
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...feared was Lucania, declared tall, handsome young Prosecutor Dewey, that the bondsmen promptly quit their business. Independent bookers were either driven out of the city at gun point or forced to join the syndicate...
...cooperation, it was observed that two apes would soon learn to work together on a rope to bring a basket of food within reach. When one wanted to quit work, he patted the other on the back...
...regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything but the always-imminent Revolution. He worked hard and well to make money, because he had to live and because Marx needed his financial support, and when he had made enough he quit...
...Early up, and glad at my heart to know I am finished with examinations; and, yet, a little sad to quit my studies with my tutor, and to feel I must soon leave these pleasant bowers where I have learned many sweet philosophies. But it being such a fair day, I no more of these thoughts; so, in brave new flannels, all a bubble, to the office where I have not been in a long time. There I did see many new faces and one young one did ask what might my business be. Also I see my desk...
...upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture. Mr. Cullinan had quit the company a few years before in one of those periodic management eruptions which have given Texaco such a peculiarly individualistic tang ever since it was founded in 1902. Mr. Cullinan had called for the usual showdown with the board of directors. A loser, he picked up his hat and walked out, with no hard feelings, to start what he hoped would be another Texaco. When he needed...