Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise of the career that opened before him, enjoyed life immensely? when he did not happen to have a sore throat...
...important that the public recover from the impression that writing is the mere sitting down with white paper before one and turning out a story that sells and sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction...
...hardly a year at Yale, teaching as assistant professor of Systematic Theology, when Smith College offered him its presidency. His career at Smith lasted for seven years. It brought into play the powers which had been already manifest and were yet to be more manifest-an extremely good mind, an uncommon amount of energy, tact and administrative ability joined to a sense of scholarship...
...year of teaching, a year of preaching, a year of travel, seven years at Smith, three years at Minnesota, five years at Michigan-then death. So quickly closed a brief and brilliant career of less than 20 years...
That he started his career as a saddler's apprentice is well-known. That he stopped directly from this occupation to the presidency is, of course, false. Since 1901 he had been a recognized factor in German politics. Ebert had always been a Socialist, preaching the creed of Marx and Lassalle in the streets of Bremen...