Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football is not the only sport that tempts the undergraduate to unbalance his college career, nor is the Professional Football League the only organization which needs such a ruling, as that administered by Mr. Edwards. The last few days has seen the Middle West in the midst of a war waged on this very question. Mr. Z. G. Clevenger of Indiana University, secretary of the Western Conference, recently said in a letter to Mr. Murray Hurlbert, national president of the Amateur Athletic Union, that the strength and vitality of athletes was being overtaxed. "We are trying to control this, however...
...Cover Charge" has neither plot, nor beginning nor end. The aurnor purports to supply one in the career of Alan, the hero. What it comes down to is a series of sordid affairs strung together with a certain deftness which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer...
...play "Brown of Harvard" began its career with a successful run of several months on Broadway. The ambling good natured style, and the clever character delineations attracted the Gotham theatre-going public from the start...
...contain interesting commentaries on the way the play was received at the time. The Theatre Magazine of April 1906 says: "The joyousness of exuberant youth has been happily dramatized by Rida Johnson Young in "Brown of Harvard," and unless outward signs should fail. Henry Woodruffs stellar career has started in with every indication of lasting favor. The play depicting undergraduate life at Cambridge has much to commend it for its fresh and accurate character drawing and the breezy naturalness of the dialogue. Like all pieces of its kind, the moving motive is the struggle for athletic supremacy. . . . "Brown of Harvard...
...practice of medicine is characterized, beyond other professional work, by complete independence of action and lack of supervision from the time the young man begins his career. He is further more equally characterized by the extra-ordinary speed with which new information accumulates. The practitioner must acquire much of this new information and in large part must judge himself of its value or worthlessness...