Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bothersome matter of "quickie" strikes, the unions described as "practically a thing of the past . . . necessary a few months ago when the shipowners were leaving no stone unturned to break the back of a struggling new union...
...premonition of future careers and select the field in which they are really interested. Although it does not commit them to lifelong imprisonment, changes later on cannot be made without the loss of much valuable time, and care now will pay large dividends later on. Above all, the worst thing they can do is to drift into any field at all, expecting to have an education shoved down their throats, as it were. Freshmen owe it to themselves to use their common sense during the next few weeks and come to an intelligent decision...
Turning to radio, Kathleen auditioned herself into the lead in a nationally known domestic serial, Doc Harding's Wife. When a part opened for her in One Thing After Another, she gladly forsook the microphone...
...people. Victor Wolfsohn was "Cyrano," his "Roxane" was a chubby, attractive Stanford graduate, Kathleen Fitz, who was teaching education and studying for an M.A. in psychology. Eight years later Victor Wolfsohn had written a successful Broadway play, last year's Excursion, and Miss Fitz was acting in One Thing After Another in New York...
...generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their own experience. And while both Joseph and His Brothers and its sequel Young Joseph contained the lifelike characterizations that readers of Thomas Mann's modern novels had come to expect from him, they contained some thing more-a sense of the submerged and forgotten origins of men's beliefs...