Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural to measure him by other great revolutionary leaders. None of these whose names come first to mind can be easily compared to him. Both Robespierre and Cromwell had careers which in certain respects bear striking resemblances to that of Lenine, but the differences are even more significant. Cromwell's career offers perhaps a closer parallel than that of Robespierre...
...will not pass unnoticed that at this stage of his career Mr. Coolidge was actively interested in some very 'liberal' legislation. The antimonopoly bill certainly represented the antithesis of standpattism; so also, the anti-discrimination bill; and so particularly the anti-injunction bill, which he effectively championed on the floor of the House. We may properly repeat here a line of comment from the Northampton Daily Herald of April 24, 1908, which said: 'Mr. Coolidge is entitled to the thanks of the wage laborers of his district for his manly defense of their interests...
...career was as picturesque as his personality, about which innumerable legends survive. He was always a prodigy. Born at Charleston, S. C., in 1831, he translated Anacreon at 12, graduated from Princeton with high honors at 18. He studied in Germany, at Berlin, Bonn, Gottingen, and upon his return became Professor of Greek at the University of Virginia, in 1856. He was called to organize a department of Greek at Johns Hopkins 20 years later, and it was during his 47 years of residence in Baltimore that he made his reputation as a man of prodigious learning and irrepressible...
Scotti bowed appreciatively at this portent of long life and career...
Will Tilden immediately exploded. Said he: "Writing is my chosen career. The committee may not know that I began working for newspapers while in my junior year at college and have been identified with the writing game since then. I hadn't even won a State title during my early years in the newspaper game, so my work was not dependent upon my ability as a tennis player. Neither was the fact that I have done dramatic and music reviews for metropolitan papers, nor that I have had eight fiction stories accepted by magazines in the last 18 months...