Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel McNider has a distinguished army career behind him, has been active in the American Legion of which he was National Commander in 1922, and has been a successful banker in Mason city, Iowa, since resigning from the army at the close of the Great War. The new assistant saw service on the Mexican border in 1916, and in 1917 went to France as a second lieutenant in the A. E. F. reaching the grade of lieutenantcolonel by the end of the war. He was wounded in action at St. Mihiel and decorated three times for bravery...
Whitbeck, who has had a brilliant tennis career both at school and college, and who is now captain of the University tennis team is favored to reach the semi-finals...
Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle...
...Osborne's career as a reformer, first as chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform and later as Warden of Sing Sing and as Commander of the Naval Prison at Hortsmouth, N. H., has attracted nation wide interest...
Fortunately, the Senior had other ideas about his college career than a servile preparation for the examinations, and he declined the suggested change. This incident, not serious in its consequences because of the student's self reliance, is serious as an example of tutorial blindness, of which, unfortunately, it is not an unheard of instance...