Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first thing he did was to put up the barriers, to step behind a shield of Presidential immunity from direct quotation. The gulf between his past and his present was staggering. He had made his career on the same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
...possibilities of a university at any period are limited. An attempt to train students for a new career detracts to some extent from the resources in hand, or obtainable, which could otherwise be used to maintain or improve existing instruction or research. In deciding, therefore, to undertake any work it is necessary to inquire whether the service to be rendered is greater or less than attempting to improve existing departments of the University. and this will depend upon the needs of those departments, and upon the question whether it is better to have a limited number of departments...
...deputy marshals. At the station, he bade farewell to friends who had gone to see him off. His wife boarded the same train and went to Atlanta in his company-or in as much of it as the marshals would permit. Thus, for the time being, ends the career of a man unique for his combination of the fervor of an African evangelist and the financial talents of a Ponzi...
...Carlo will continue its career as before, though it is likely that some of the U. S. singers will be transferred to the new organization. Most famed of these are Alice Gentle, whose home is in Seattle, Anna Fitzui (Chicago), Bianca Saroya (Philadelphia), Gilda Marcelle (Buffalo), Freda Werlein (New Or- leans), Bernice Shalker (Manhattan...
...White House. This was the first sign of the coming revolution. It has been followed by an even more portentious event. Bernard Shaw has been taking tango lessons in Madeira. During this period he claims to have written more than during any other equal period of time in his career...