Word: job
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more obvious liberation was opened. Russia is much like a small boy who has a job to do, but who, receiving the legacy of a dime, loses interest in that work which may only bring him a nickel...
...spring. Mr. Eliot was formerly connected with the Little Theatre in New York, and he was director of the Little Theatre in Indianapolis. He acted for a time with the Washington Square Players in New York. Last year he coached the Menorah Society's production of "The Book of Job...
...first half on the College year, Seniors in particular and other undergraduates to a less degree are reminded that the time is soon at hand when they must put the results of their training to a practical test and prove their "raison d'etre" by securing and holding a job. Strange to say, many men, some of them ready to graduate have only the haziest notion of the position for which they are supposed to have been fitting. They drift along fatuously believing that sooner or later they will discover hidden talents and astonish the world...
...Woolsey Stryker is to quit the presidency of Hamilton College this year. It is not too soon. Indeed, in his address to the alumni is this city last week he displayed an utter incompetence for his job. What shall be said of a college president who feels that...
...Sargent has succeeded in doing a hard job well. He has so interwoven and proportioned facts of antiquity, descriptions of old houses, historical data, present-day industrial notations, descriptions of natural features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...