Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't keep order in study hall. The boys pitched pennies and lumps of coal around the room. So the headmaster fired him, and hurried off to Yale for another. In Harry Alfred Peters, only 23 but lean and hard, he found his man. Peters began his teaching career by tossing the two toughest troublemakers out on their ears...
...enlisted. The war ended before he got to camp, so he went back to Wells Fargo. When Vera Anita Witt, a pretty, bright-eyed coed from the University of California, came to work in Wells Fargo for the summer, Pat married her. Then he settled down to his career as a banker...
...department of bio-chemical sciences offers a convenient means of satisfying both requirements for a degree and the basic requisites for admission to medical school at one stroke, but the man who is uncertain about a medical career runs the danger of finding himself as a senior able to carry on an enlightened conversation in most of the branches of the physical and biological sciences without possessing enough specialized training to put his knowledge to work without further preparation...
...locomotive powers, my memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
Teele stressed that the main job of the Office of Student Placement is to help the student select a career, but that when it comes to obtaining a specific job, "men must place themselves...