Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Probably this is the goal which the Harvard authorities had uppermost in mind when they made the new grant, and unquestionably it is one of the ends which the grant will serve. The change promotes emphasis upon the undergraduate's own desire to gain real values from his college career, with diminishing stress on the notion that he must be forcibly...
...good many Americans today do not know that the morning star and the evening star are the same heavenly creature and that her name is Venus, the reason may be that our calendar is based upon the career of a larger and more obvious body called the sun. An ancient Maya of Central America and southern Mexico had not this excuse for ignorance concerning the loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight...
Colonel Wedgewood has had a varied career in England. He is a naval architect by profession, but has also been active as an advocate of the single tax, and a prominent member of the Labor Party...
Frank Andrew Munsey came to New York with $40, he worked there 40 odd years, he had 40 failures, he made 40 million dollars.* The most astounding part of his career was in recent years when he changed the map of newspaperdom with Napoleonic versatility. But the story, the big story, the story he himself told best, is the story of that...
...complained: "I have not lived. . . . I've worked . . . talked a lot . . . loved . . . hated . . . laughed a good deal . . . built some houses . . . brought up my children . . . thought a little . . . and?" The Angel of Death interrupted, "That was Life." Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line...