Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some commentators have had him dead and others considered his species extinct; but now comes a persistent rumor that he is to return, groomed and fit, the "dark horse" of the next Presidential Derby in 1924. Who will ride him is not announced and the logical man for the job, Senator Borah of Idaho has done his best publicly to disclaim the honor...
...submit to his investigation of their demands for appropriations. Hence it is understandable that the first comptroller of the budget needed to be a fighting man with no tender feelings on the subject. President Harding evidently bore this in mind when he appointed "Hell and Maria" Dawes for the job...
...Harvard? There is no underestimating of today's job, but, on the other hand, there is no overestimating its difficulties. When the team goes out on the field this afternoon to face its first real test of the season, it will have, regulars and substitutes, the confidence of the University from start to finish...
...develop fully a Harvard team worthy of the name, is a two months' job; but to develop an undergraduate support worthy of that team ought not to take anything like the time. Lukewarm cheering, poor attendance, lack of interest in the games inevitably have an effect on the team. In the past when such difficulties have been encountered they have been due largely to a lack of organization among the student body...
...interesting career. A Syrian by birth, of illiterate parents, he gained some education at the American missionary schools in his own country, and later came to America, where he landed in New York almost penniless. Gravitating to the Syrian colony he was able to secure a bookkeeper's job and later became in editor of the Syrian paper. He gained a knowledge of the English language while an itinerant lecturer, and later took up teaching. Some ten years ago he become a minister and has since been pastor of churches in Michigan and Ohio until coming to Boston...