Word: amateurisms
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...Olympic figure skaters, others into masters of the 18-ft. jump shot. The pageant hopeful may have this doggedness. She can't get prettier, but she can hone her talent, polish her poise. By the time she makes the top 50, she has become a curious hybrid: the professional amateur...
Stettheimer was a rich amateur. One of four daughters, she studied art in Germany, lived for a time in Paris, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 returned to New York. Her home on the Upper West Side became one of an overlapping array of salons devoted to modernism; others were run by Walter and Louise Arensberg and the redoubtable Mabel Dodge...
...have been running into parents [at top amateur golf tournaments] that didn't know we had a program." Smith related. "We are now stimulating a lot of interest...
Throughout his lifetime, Myrbeck held a variety of positions including serving as a radio engineer for the Yankee Broadcast Network, an instructor in electronic theory at Boston Teacher's College and amateur radio operator for the radio-telephone station WISM. The station operated out of Myrbeck's home, and contacted over 200 countries worldwide by voice and Morse code...
Thomas, 39, operator of the Amateur Action BBS in Milpitas, California, made headlines last year when he and his wife Carleen, 40, were indicted for transmitting pornographic material to a government agent in Tennessee. A jury in Memphis wasted little time ruling that the images--which included pictures of women having sex with animals--were obscene. But his case raised the tricky constitutional question of which locale's community standards should have been used to make that judgment: Tennessee's Bible Belt, California's Bay Area or the virtual community of cyberspace...