Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next President Doumergue, presumably at the suggestion of M. Briand, asked the latter's friend, Senator Paul Doumer, to form a cabinet. Senator Doumer has had a long and honorable political career* and has not been greatly embroiled in the recent political struggle. He could come forward without stirring the animosities which spring up about every man recently in power. He might succeed in conciliating Blum. He failed...
Elliott Kirk declines the call to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, for receiving his decision with a certain degree of amazement. Amazing as it is, however, and regrettable from New York's point of view, it must be regarded with deference. . . . Far from regarding the ministry as a career, with such canons of success, as obtain in other careers, he seems to regard it as a service, to be detached from his personal acclaim and to be followed where duty lies...
...music, sport. Then he began to play chess again, and the story of his life is the graph of a series of brilliant moves from the little square of one country to the little square of another. After winning 99 tournament games, he wrote a book, My Chess Career, which contains many remarkable statements, such as the following...
...being Brother Jonathan from whom our country takes its traditional name. Lodge's 'Life' of Washington' refers to him as 'Old Governor Trumbull, Brother Jonathan, who never failed to respond when a call was made for men and money, and upon whose friendship and advice Washington always leaned.' His career is briefly summarized by the inscription on his tombstone in the Lebanan, Conn., and cemetery...
...speaks on December 16. Dr. Grenfell, who received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University in 1909, has worked for many years in the bleak fishing towns of Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts. An Englishman by birth, he attended London and Oxford Universities, and started his career as a medical missionary in 1887. Many Harvard students have spent summers working with the Grenfell Mission...