Word: careers
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Although only 37 years of age, Landis has already had a brilliant career as a scholar, legal expert, and government official He was born in Tokio, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. His first education was received there, for he did not come to America until he was 13. In 1917 he entered Princeton, where he was outstanding in both studies and athletics, and after graduation he attended the Harvard Law School from which he was graduated in 1924. He continued his studies and the following year became a doctor of judicial science...
...major accomplishments of his career, including Nebraska's unicameral system which he believes caps it, George Norris had to wait until after he was 70. Not until 1932 when he had been nearly 20 years in the Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers...
...these things, however, are merely foibles of an unquestionably great man. At the close of his career to which he is so fond of referring, he will leave behind him such monuments as Norris Dam and the 20th Amendment which are far more than most great insurgents, Borah for exle or the late La Follette, leave behind in the way of positive achievement...
...career of Catherine de' Medici, one of the biggest career women of the Reformation, was a long time starting, came as near as nothing to never starting...
...consuming activity in the past few stories, that of "taking care" of friends at state expense, has provided a fitting climax to a long and thoroughly unenviable career. But even had he given a sugary pill at the end of his doctoring of the state, he could not overcome the evil taste left by large doses of sickening medicines...