Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Coach Horween will bring at least two of his future assistants back with him on his return from the West. It is also very likely that the chief assistants will not be Harvard graduates, but men from other colleges who have been associated with Horween in his football career subsequent to his graduation from Harvard...
...Warren become President." Now, General Grant's father saw his son twice elected and inaugurated as President of the U. S., and is the only man of whom that can be said. Although he had earlier experienced disgust over the flat failure that Ulysses had made of his career, there is no reason to suppose that his paternal heart did not feel joy at such a turn of fortune. I would not be sure that there were not other fathers who have seen their sons reach Presidential honors...
...rehearse his brilliant legal career would be out of place though scarcely tedious. The fact of essential interest is that he went out to India five years ago and found it seething with unrest. As everyone knows, India is now, if not*** calm, at least much calmer. The little bourgeois from London marts has performed marvels of constructive statemanship...
...That fall of 1900 Harvard College permitted her to take graduate courses in logic and metaphysics. This was while she was teaching ethics and psychology in Boston private schools. Then while her husband was establishing his professional reputation and then enjoying it, she organized her own remarkable career...
...Author, Charles Gilman Norris, a Chicago merchant's son, was brought up in acquiescent eclipse. His "beautiful and restless and ambitious and fiery" mother, denied a stage career by wifehood, centred her hopes in her oldest son, the late Frank Norris (author of The Octopus, The Pit, etc.) Charles, youngest of six, got and sought no encouragement for "his little old solitary dreams" and his school and college writings. His rapid romance and marriage with Kathleen Thompson (author of Mother, The Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition...