Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus ended the 35-year football career of one of the nation's most widely acclaimed gridiron tactician, a career which began as a player for Pennsylvania State in 1913, led first to a coaching job at College (1921-25), thence to the position of football mentor and athletic director at Western Maryland (1925-34), and finally to Harvard...
George Marshall's admirable career began in Uniontown, Pa. 67 years ago. He was the son of a coal operator, and a collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall. He grew up to go to Virginia Military Institute and become a soldier. He served in the Philippines, fought in France in World War I; as operations chief of the First Army, he won the commendations of his superiors for the way he moved half a million men into the Argonne offensive. General John J. Pershing called him the best officer in the U.S. Army...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
Lawyer, Fighter, Poet. He came back a wild man. Students of his career may be reminded of Kenneth Fearing's poem...
...there seems never to have been a breathing space in his career. He was a lawyer, editor, poet, author, lecturer, a major general in the Union army, a major general in the Mexican army, a minister to Turkey, the organizer of an insurance company, a fortune-hunter, a hero. He was ruined by the Battle of Shiloh and again by postwar politics; ruined again by an attempt to organize a Mexican army. But after all his misfortunes, he wrote Ben-Hur which, both as a novel and as a play, and later as a movie, exercised a genuinely magnetic hold...