Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced. The first will be a bureau of appointments carried on in large measure as it is now constituted. The second division will be devoted to assisting in the orientation of Freshmen in the choice of their upper school, discussing with students the election of courses and a career, and collecting data to aid the Board of Admission in solving problems related to the method of selecting students and in general assembling information that will be helpful in vocational guidance and in the placement of Seniors...
...visit of three weeks to his cousin Joachim, who has been a patient for some months. Pastoy is a very ordinary person, a member of an ancient Hamburg family of merchants, himself about to enter the ship-building industry. His cousin had been in training for an army career. Both careers promise to be very dull...
...period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
...other was a stocky Jew of 30-Charles A. Levine-an industrialist of Brooklyn. He began his business career by selling second-hand automobiles. He made several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine...
Director-in-chief Hofmann's pol icy will doubtless continue to permit Curtis Institute teachers to perform as well as instruct. Active interplay of public and professional life keeps classrooms alive. Herr Hofmann was himself taught by Anton Rubenstein at an active period during the latter's career. Conversely, Herr Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola...