Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese newspaper recently: "During the period of 1916 to 1925, he turned his spear backward seven times, at the rate of about once a year." That was a pretty good explanation, except for two points: 1) it dealt with only a small segment of a long and tortuous career, and 2) some might not understand that American for "turned his spear" is "double-crossed...
...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
...injury was the shrewdest twist Fortune has given Peck's career. Because of it he took up acting, which he had never before considered. Because of it, he was draftproof at a time when the war brought Hollywood disastrously close to total emasculation...
...they say. And they single out a November Saturday in 1937 when Yale arrived in Cambridge boasting Clint Frank and an undefeated season, and left the Stadium on the upside down end of a 13-6 score. They have said more. So much, in fact, that Dick Harlow's career at Harvard has long since been translated from the record into legend...
...they have not said it all. They have forgotten that Dick Harlow came to Harvard with the reputation of being a career coach, a professional who was interested in only lone thing-victory, and victory at any cost. He came from a Western Maryland team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted...