Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge gave a portrait of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr. to the Walter Reed Hospital (Washington). It seemed appropriate to do so because he had anticipated a military career and because he died in Walter Reed Hospital, where War veterans are rehabilitated...
Irate, he broadly hinted that the Department acted "unconstitutionally" when it negotiated the modus vivendi (TIME, March 7) on the basis of which the U. S. has already sent to Turkey that alert and statesmanly "career diplomat," Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Since the appointments of Ambassadors Grew and Moukhtar Bey have been an accomplished fact for months, some observers thought it churlish of Mr. Gerard to wait until the Turkish Ambassador was actually en route, last week, before delivering himself as follows: "The Senate will soon have an opportunity to express itself upon the so-called modus vivendi...
...perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
...expressions of politeness when people were introduced to him. His oversized hands and heavy feet, his awkward body bulging in its loose shrouds, made him look very much out of place among all those lovers of art. But Sculptor Epstein did not appear disconcerted. Had the history of his career flashed through his mind, he would have recalled how he had left America in 1902, how for three years he had studied in Paris how for 22 years he had lived in London listening to the insensate mouthings of academicians every time he displayed his work. Lately returned...
...long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally but arguments were...