Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pole vault, and was third in the shot. Win Pettingell was the other Crimsonite who tied at 12 ft. 4 in. in the vault. Bert Litman was a double winner in the shot put and the javelin. His javelin throw of 192 feet was the best of his career...
...expand, and formal classification of students into Group A and Group B would be superfluous. It would seem desirable, however, to force the students in the field who would normally fall into Group B to integrate their material for a general examination at the end of the college career. They would at least know as much chemistry at graduation then, as they had at any point earlier in college. Such familiarity is unusual, because the detailed nature of the material makes it rarely used after specific course work has stopped...
...undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many an author and journalist of America today is proud to be listed among the pupils of Dean Briggs...
...London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell, who traveled with the "sad young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing...
...step was to finish Luke's education. Architecture was to be Luke's field. But somewhere along the way his quiet talent turned to teaching; by the time he had his Ph.D., architecture and the stage were alike long forgotten. Margery was content to have only the career of being Luke's wife, but she was bound that Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke...