Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worry about getting a job that is good enough for you. All you have to worry about is to be good enough for the jobs that need to be done
...urge the "brave young men of our great Universities to enter politics", it is to point out the silliness of airing socialistic reforms or conservative doctrines in a comfortable room with pleasant people by man who, when he has graduated, will say. "I'll take this good job that is offered me now--and go into politics later--sometime--perhaps...
...strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written in youth, written at white heat, and without the customary Dumas-fils thesis or moral. It may show in some subtle manner that a woman can not live down her past. But much more obviously it does not. It is interesting because...
...Guest, who has worked for 27 years on the Detroit Free Press, explained that there is nevertheless constant danger that a man may get into a rut in newspaper work, and cited his own experience as an example. "After I had been on a reporter's job for 15 years I found myself up against a brick wall, for I was getting nowhere," he declared. "That was why I began writing verse and why I am now enjoying what I have to do because it is creative. Although journalism affords the best training in the world for the man just...
...results that have made history and given a bias to civilization was handed him on a tray. He had to go after what he got, and go after it hard, and keep it up after other men got cold feet and cried quits and lay down on the job. A word of wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight of his immense achievement behind it. Edison evolved and devised not by his incandescent intellectual brilliancy merely. He labored prodigiously; he "delivered the goods": he has served pre-eminently his race; he is entitled to talk and to be heard...