Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief claim to fame is the fact that he lasted 15 dubiously honest rounds with Dempsey at Shelby (TIME, July 16, 1923). He has knocked out a great company of inferior fighters, his most glorious victories having been over William Miske, Kid Norfolk, Georges Carpentier. Now 36, his ring career is doubtless done...
...letters, To a Young Gentleman of Yale University (on writing as a career) and A Reply to a Young Gentleman About Travel have a flavor that is authentically literary as well as intentionally quaint...
...Yale. Upon graduation, he took special courses at Columbia, then at the Beaux Arts, Paris, where he was the ninth U. S. student to receive a diploma. After an apprenticeship in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus Club, the Institute of Musical...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER-Edward D. Toland-Applcton ($1.50). It is diploma time at schools and colleges. To be or not to be a lawyer, doctor, minister, engineer, policeman, taxidermist-that is the question of the gown-wearers. College questionnaires usually reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief, provocative chapters...
Before his career at Harvard began last year, Whitbeck had already attracted the attention of followers of the courts game in the East. As a student at Loomis, where he prepared for the University, Whitbeck thrice carried off the top honors in the Yale Interscholastics, and accomplished the same feat twice at the Harvard Interscholastics...