Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English language correctly, while graduate students are "boys whose parents have enough money to keep them in college until the professors are tired of looking at them." Manicured and powdered, the youth of modern college life stirs Dr. Finley more than any revolution he may chance upon during his career in Mexico City. Only the girls are safe, for in each "the heart of a mother is not far beneath the surface." The doctor pins his only hope to their skirts, and probably has to reach to do that...
...said (TIME, Aug. 24, Page 5) in sketching the career of Mr. H. P. Davison, that he "was a young man who be gan earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank, etc." It seems to be clearly implied that his student days were over before or when...
France's most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications...
Last week two bright quizzical French eyes twinkled no longer. M. Leon Bourgeois, at 74, relaxed in death the cares of state which had absorbed a career of 49 years...
...Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member who so prostitutes his art, richly deserves the deportation awaiting...