Word: careered
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...Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back on a bye-election in Paisley. The principal...
...political career started in 1883 when he was elected to Parliament on a bye-election for Newcastle-on-Tyne. He held several Cabinet posts: Chief Secretary of Ireland twice, 1886, 1892-5; Secretary of State for India, 1905-10; Lord President of the Privy Council, 1910-14. He resigned the last named post at the outbreak of the War, because, although a Liberal, he was in reality a reactionary at heart. In his Recollections he said: "The War and our action in it led to my retirement from public office. The world is traveling under formidable omens into...
Dwight W. Morrow was a classmate of President Coolidge at Amherst (1895). He then attended Columbia Law School, made a brilliant record as a student, was honored with selection to the editorial board of the Columbia Law Review, and, after a varied but uniformly notable career in private practice, became a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan...
...mortality has been high in the literary fraternity. At least eight well-known names have joined the roster of the dead. It is noteworthy, however, that all but one of these passed away ripe in years. The exception is Katherine Mansfield, whose death came upon her in mid-career. The others...
Miss Cather, born in Virginia, spent most of her early life in Nebraska, where she was graduated from the State University in 1895. She has been both journalist and teacher. For a time she was an associate editor of McClure's Magazine. Then, quite deliberately, she began her career of writing, after many years of apprenticeship, and has, as deliberately, progressed...