Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this combination will be the first to face the invading team tonight. The two lines will probably be kept intact and substituted at frequent intervals. The fight for the right defense berth is still on between Coady and Clark and it is uncertain which one will land the regular job along with Pratt. Captain Cumings, whose work in front of the net has been one of the bright spots in practically every game, is a fixture at his position...
...quondam policy of answering League communications eight months after their receipt, now answering the with solicitous promptitude. The reason is obvious. After years of uncertainty, the United States is finally determined on isolation. After years of attempted conversion, the League has given the United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding. So these small gestures of the United States are harbingers of better times to come,--if League chauvinists do not overdo them...
...have never seen so hard working a man in my life. From 9 in the morning until 9 at night is his usual stint. . . . Of course he receives the equivalent of $1,000,000 a year for 'sticking to his job,' but that barely pays his expenses...
...Poet (the late James Whitcomb Riley, personal friend of Dr. Marsh). He preached to "capacity houses," with hundreds being turned from his church door. Now, beginning next month, he will administer the affairs, social, pedagogical and financial, of a city university with 12,000 students-a big job, but his bishop (Bishop Francis J. McConnell) said when he heard the news: "He is far and away the best executive in my area . . . Dr. Marsh will succeed...
...enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...