Word: professional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-fourths of the graduating Senior class indicated their intended future profession in the Senior Album, and 207 students indicated business as their field as compared to 119 for law, and 96 for medicine.
London Telegraph's L. G. S. Payne, or London Times's Liddell Hart, are more inclined than the military "professionals" of the war departments to weigh intangible factors-and to be skeptical of physical achievements such as Germany's vaunted rearmament. Free lances argue that the men in the profession are partly interested in the propaganda value of releasing juicy figures regarding the strength of presumed enemies, partly taken in by the tremendous enthusiasm which attachés in various foreign nations develop for the particular military machines that come under their eyes...
"The patient had been addicted [to narcotics] before he came to me, mainly because he was suffering from three chronic ailments. . . . Although Fred Barrick was an addict he was a chronic, continually sick man; however, when relieved [by morphine] he was of phenomenally acute, alert, clear and competent mentality. . . . I...
In Baltimore the clubbers heard a speech by Pianist Olga Samaroff (born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Tex. and once married to Conductor Leopold Stokowski), who deplored the profession's "cutthroat competition," stepped up by refugee musicians in the U. S. The ladies re-elected as their president curly...
Left out of account by observers who figured that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a...