Word: profession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian Confession of Faith reads: "And, therefore, such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, Papists and other idolaters...
...First Church of Christ, Scientist) in Boston, last week changed the name of their organization to the Church of Universal Design. More, they renounced Mrs. Eddy as discoverer of their cult. In her place they put Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Portland (Me.) clockmaker and "mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science Church, deputy leader of the Church of Universal Design*: "The term Christian Science has been brought into widespread disfavor through the recent discovery of Mrs. Eddy...
...Yale Record, like its Cantabrigian counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon, has seen fit to ridicule the plan, and several undergraduates and younger alumni have contributed severe criticism to the columns of The Yale Daily News. The chief danger which they profess to detect is an undesirable "paternalism" which would force youths of varied origins and interests into an unwelcome intimacy, seriously interfere with the freedom of fraternities and other social organizations and possibly restrict the students to a boarding-house existence of prescribed hours of meals, study and sleep. In other words, it is charged that the proposed system, admittedly designed...
...manufacturers known to the trade as "contractors" because they contract the disposal of their entire production to wholesale jobbers. These contractors accuse the jobbers of driving such sharp bargains, of "jewing" prices down so low, that only by sweatshop methods can the little manufacturers meet the stiff competition. They profess sympathy with their.striking employes but claim they cannot accede to their wage and time demands until the jobbers agree to cease patronizing and encouraging sweatshop contractors. The jobbers retort that they are bound to seek the best possible prices, sweatshops or no sweatshops, to induce the public...
...tales" in this little book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers...