Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike Miss Mary Byrne, Miss Emily Rowland, who taught school in New York and Virginia, always found a charm in the monotony of her career. A year ago, the University of the State of New York awarded her the degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither...
...three years in his undergraduate career Buell was a star quarterback on the University eleven, and captained the team in his Senior year. After his graduation he assumed the post of head coach of football at Milton, and for two years turned out undefeated teams. He resigned his post there to come to Harvard as quarterback coach under Arnold Horween...
...paper constitute the chief part of the news candidates work. Ability to get advertising is usually the decisive factor in the competition for the Business board, although the collection of subscriptions and a certain amount of office work also play a part in the Business aspirant's career...
...were but the ill-considered commercial venture of an individual; but a papal chamberlain is esteemed a member of the Pope's household itself. . . . [That office] is one of intimate association with the person of the Pontiff. One cannot conceive of a papal chamberlain embarking upon such a career without the knowledge and approval of his superior. Clearly he must be sent, unless he is imposing upon the credulity of the public...
...certain to overtake them. After the war they live together in London where they are regarded as twin comets of disaster. Their charm is sufficient to make everybody want to know them, sufficient also to make everyone want to be in at the death of their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long...