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Word: careered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Michael I | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Paris Conference brought to it a richer background of diplomatic experience. Mr. White began his diplomatic career in 1883, occupying a secretarial post in the U. S. Embassy at Vienna. From 1884 to 1893 he was a Secretary at the Court of St. James's. Then came four years of private life (coinciding with the Democratic Cleveland Administration). In 1897 President McKinley sent him back to London where he remained till 1905, in which year President Roosevelt appointed him Ambassador to Italy. From 1907 to 1909 he was Ambassador to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Useful Man' | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...soul? After the sermon the choir sang a hymn: "It must be told." Then back to Indianapolis went the Governor and, at first refusing to comment on the Stephenson check, later gave an explanation of - an explanation which brought the deceased horse and the horse's career before the public eye. Governor Jackson admitted that the check was authentic, but said it represented a business transaction and had no political significance. He said that he had sold a "valuable saddle' horse" (i.e. The Senator) to Mr. Stephenson and that the $2,500 was in payment for the horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bones Picked | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...aspects. He was paying a visit to his brother E. C. Stevens, headmaster of a Denver school. Also he was revisiting the scene of his engineering apprenticeship. So in his annual address to the Society he permitted himself to touch upon part of the "routine business" of his own career. This part was not his feat of discovering Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains for the Great Northern R. R., or any part of his pioneer work for the Canadian Pacific R. R., or any of his experiences as chief of the War-time board to improve trans-Siberian travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Engineers | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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