Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book on taxidermy, advertised in the Youth's Companion, was what started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...much more closely supervised and guided in their work than similar students in a European university is that when they arrive at the graduate school of the university they must be taught research methods of work which they have not learned in the last two years of their college career...
Albert Bacon Fall, 65, had the more startling career and faces the more dismal future. From a cattle prospector he rose to be Secretary of the Interior under President Harding. Born in Kentucky, he spent most of his youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group...
...Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That the entire transaction was urged and approved by onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby; 3) That Secretary Fall had only wanted to serve in President Harding's Cabinet for one year as "the capstone of his public career," and that he stayed a second year because the President urged him; 4) That the $100,000 loan was merely a personal good-turn between two old friends...
...audience at the Park, most of whom never saw the inside of the Repertory, loved Peg almost as much as her nursery mates at the Repertory used to, which would seem to assure Miss Entwistle of a long career and a merry one, with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...