Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighter. He Avas pure.He was uncompromising. He was a lonely leader. He saw concrete reforms and proceeded to them without other considerations. He inspired some. He angered others. He was loyal to ideals rather than to party. Few lieutenants were loyal to him through his career. He was fearless. He was true to his causes, and too sure of his convictions. He was too fierce a warrior to be a great general...
Born in Vienna, he won a prize at the Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
From Aaron "who began his career well, as brother of Moses, but made the fatal mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath...
...class started its academic career with the proud distinction of defeating the Sophomores in the football match on the traditional "Bloody Monday" night The class won in two games out of three, the only instance of such an achievement so long as the semi-barbaric institution was continued. It was the boast of the class also that it gave more trouble to the faculty than any class which had been graduated since the days of the Great Rebellion...
Replies have recently been received to a circular letter sent out by President Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania, in which the following question was propounded: "In the light of your career since graduating, what in your college education appears now to have been of greatest value to you?" The replies comprise an almost limitless variety of benefits,--such as "training in Investigating a subject", "mental, moral, and physical a training", 'contact with faculty members and students", "studious and orderly habits of thought", "knowledge of human nature", "responsibility", "general culture", "general orientation of the different branches of knowledge", "labor, determination...