Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balfour, the Beresfords, Midleton, Rosebery?all men who have left their mark on the pages of Britain's recent history?were closing the chapters of their Eton life. From Eton he went to Oxford's scholar college, Balliol, where like Lord Oxford and Asquith, he carved a brilliant academic career...
...Bryans to Vice-President Dawes. It must have been a jolly party, with Charles W. predicting a Democratic victory in 1928, with W. J. drinking a fundamentalist toast in grape juice, and with Dawes having to curb his genius in face of the greatest justification in his career for inventing a new "cuss" word...
...many colleges a decided stress on commercialism, and that these universities do not contribute to the greatness of a civilization as much as colleges which dispense culture and the background of a liberal education. The further evils of stressing business in colleges lie in the premature choice of a career which a boy must make under such a regime and in the mistaken belief of the boy that the best things which college has to offer are the social and extra-curricular activities...
...William Green, speaking last night on "Modern Trade-Unionism" before the Harvard Union audience, made the first declaration of his career as president of the American Federation of Labor. This long awaited pronouncement was set forth briefly in his address and many individual points were elucidated later when he answered a large number of questions from the floor...
...ordeal of disclosing to them the history of his life. His humor only came into its own, he said, when he left business as a profession some four years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase of a business career was terminated by the war, when he entered the Navy and during the war gave his all for his country, in Chicago. Having never been on the sea, he was at once appointed instructor in navigation. "I still get letters," he confessed, "from mothers whose sons have never come back...