Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain is not the true England, the Democratic England-just as the France of M. Daladier is not the France of the Popular Front, the true Democratic France. . . . This is the first time in my career as a commentator on international affairs that I am left largely speechless. . . . The thing that I cannot understand and seems almost inconceivable is that no storm of indignation in England or France has yet swept the Chamberlain and Daladier Governments out of office! . . . What has happened to the leaders...
Bull Fiddler. Koussevitzky has taken few of life's bumps. One good reason has been Natalya Konstantinovna Koussevitzkaya, his pleasant, portly, beak-nosed Russian wife. Koussevitzky is her career. Once a sculptress, she has not only spent the best part of her life smoothing out her husband's path; she also played an important part in putting him on the path in the first place...
...profession. He was born in 1874 in the tiny bedraggled central Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory orchestra, the only scholarships open to him were for instruction on 1) the trombone...
Last February an outspoken little monthly pamphlet called Air Facts set out on a career dedicated to safer nonscheduled aviation. The facts it faced were these: of some 10,000 airplanes licensed in the U.S. for private flying in 1937, about 150, or one in every 67, figured in crashes killing 283 pilots and passengers. Air Facts' thesis: 90% of crashes in nonscheduled flying are due, not to the familiar bugaboos of aviation-motor failure, structural failure, weather-but to faulty flying, traceable in most cases to limited experience or incomplete instruction...
Thus bitterly did grey, puttery Charles Edgar Duryea, acknowledged father of the U.S. automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building...