Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forte is her naturalness. She has refused to be dazzled by her position and has gone on being herself. Florence Harding tried to act up to her job and Edith Gait Wilson assumed extra-legal prerogatives; but neither was popular...
...people realize the long tedious job required to make the shot putter who can surpass 45 feet. The improvement beyond that stage is even more difficult, and yet the increased interest in shot putting has made it virtually an impossibility to figure in the points in the Intercollegiate championship with a drive of less than 46 feet...
...similar study of some other and later historic episode, say English civilization in the nineteenth century, or maybe our own American civilization, the assumption here being that the students would doubtless be led during the sophomore year to draw comparisons between the ways different people go at the job of building and administering a civilization, and to discover what kinds of civilizations occur when different sets of factors are present. This is, of course, an adaption to higher education of the project method that has been worked out in primary and secondary education. And there at least is this advantage...
...Without taking the suggestion seriously, I will say that to hold public office effectively requires political experience and political knowledge. I have neither. I have never undertaken a job for which my experience did not in some degree qualify me and I hope I never...
Naturally when it was announced last week that "a Cabinet Minister" was anonymously editing the Government's anti-strike newspaper, the British Gazette, Britons were as sure that "Winnie" Churchill had taken on that job as if the fact had been trumpeted from the steps of Buckingham Palace...