Word: jobs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grew up in the atmosphere of politics, knowing many political leaders before he was 20. After being graduated from Butler University (Indianapolis), he spent three years abroad. When he returned he wrote his experiences for the Indianapolis Journal. This led to his employment as a reporter. The reporter's job led to the city editorship. In time, he persuaded his father to buy the paper, which he brought, during his 25 years with it, to a place as one of the leading Republican papers of the state...
...anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic figure...
...After-dinner Speaker Job E. Hedges spoke on a number of things, including hypocrisy, with which he taunted the American people...
Charles Ranlett Flint was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed...
...students know of the dissension in the time of Jefferson, exclaimed Professor Hart in his concluding speech. "how in thunder can you expect them to understand the polities of today' I shall stand on the proposition that our aucestors in the Revolution did a mightly good job even if they were act all good men and allowing for their mistakes as we make mistakes following the splendid story of their endeavor and is result of conquering a continent and assimilating millions of those who have come...