Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all...
The psychiatrists themselves had more solemn problems on their minds. Their profession, they thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We...
Another, who vouched for his knowledge of "American vaudeville of the '203 and the profession of magic," was revealed as a victim of the decline of that vaudeville.
"While success in a profession today of ten requires a high degree of specialized training, the success of our democratic society must be based on an understanding of its common aims and values," Axt said.
It is the compound of dreamer and practical masterbuilder which hoists Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older...