Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local boards may bring undesirable and unfair pressure upon them. By deferring college students until the end of their academic year and exempting married men, he feels that the law will turn both institutions into havens for draft dodgers. And drafting a man in the middle of his college career is disruptive not only to his education but also to the college or university itself...
...means of circular letters to all Seniors and a series of career conferences on vocational fields, the Office registered almost a thousand undergraduates for its counseling service last year and was instrumental in obtaining for graduating Seniors a large number of positions in virtually all vocational fields...
...plans for this cream of the educational crop. But at the same time "the weight of the school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...
...young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...
...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...