Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice Holmes is as venerable as his father, and equals his sire in other respects. The father began his career by studying law, assayed literature and wrote Old Ironsides. Finally he settled on medicine. He never attained great success as a physician, although his contributions to medicine were well recognized in the profession. Even when his literary interests again became predominant, he continued as professor at the Harvard Medical School, teaching anatomy until 1882. Into medicine he took his literary talents, turned his biting wit against homeopathy, enlivened his teaching so that it is said his lectures were placed late...
...York Times brings out Professor Murray's position as a world figure, especially with regard to his work in connection with the League of Nations. The same phase of his career is brought out as follows in The New York World: "Gilbert Murray is an outstanding world figure. He has translated the Greek dramas into English as beautifully as any-scholar, past or present: he is an authority upon Greek life and history. But he is also a citizen of the world of today and as chairman of the executive League of Nations Union he has impressed his personality upon...
Stamped, cheered and sat spellbound while Premier Briand delivered one of the most moving speeches of his career, urging ratification for the Locarno Treaties. His words...
...adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
...French Chamber of Deputies has overturned another cabinet and sent one more prime minister to join the vast army of the unemployed premiers. For the ninth time in his long Parliamentary career. Aristide Briand has gone down before an unfavorable vote and turned his job over to a luckless successor...