Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools do not complete the secondary teaching that ought to be done at the age our young men come to college. The result is that with the preparation now required for professional and business life--much longer than it was formerly--the young man does not begin his active career until a later age than is wise. An artisan at the age of 20 may be earning as large an income, and be as well able to support a family, as he ever will be; but his contemporary who is looking forward to the bar or to medicine, for example...
Last week, eight years after leaving under a politically-brewed cloud, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo returned in triumph to the State Capitol of Mississippi, for his second four-year term as Governor. Once tried and acquitted of bribery, Mr. Bilbo had recarved his career, whetting the fighting edge of his ambition on the grindstone of his persecution.* Inaugurated once more, he reiterated all the things he wanted to do for Mississippi. The list sounded to the holiday crowd that had flocked to Jackson from counting house and cotton field, like a sane program to fulfill. It included...
...made a still greater change by requiring for the master's degree two years of work instead of one. This it is hoped will in time appeal to young men and women who have just graduated from college and intend to make teaching or school administration their career. The changes were expected to cause a considerable reduction of the number of students in the School, but the loss has proved less than was anticipated, the total for full time and part time students having diminished only...
...lost its edge. Yet, last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many of them had been a canyon never to be crossed...
...first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed son. He went to Vienna. Teaching tormented him. He turned pupil himself again, studied two years with Leschetizky, practiced eighteen hours a day. Success, fame, immortality loomed...