Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the practice of the world's oldest profession, the water fronts of Port Said or Shanghai have never hummed more briskly than do London's Piccadilly and gaudy, shoddy Soho. Day & night girls walk their dogs, soliciting. Police look the other way, make few attempts to check...
Not until the war's end did he enter seriously into his profession-the law. Within a few years great British manufacturing concerns found in the young barrister the most able scientific expert in the country. Calm, urbane, he could speak clearly, expertly on the most complicated industrial matters...
Still uncertain, Swales asked: "How hard do you want her hit?" He understood that his blows were to "finish her off altogether," that Clarke would give him $1,000 for the job. Swales pondered the plan. Thieving as a profession had its advantages. But he had never considered murder before...
Engineer. The U.S. lost more than an ace pilot in Buzz Wagner. Before he joined the Air Corps in 1937 Buzz studied aeronautical engineering three years at the University of Pittsburgh, where he "failed to flash any scholastic lights." But he learned about airplanes and airplane engines as few pursuit...
This final copy is much like the "Guardians" which have preceded it. As so often happens, the best article in the issue is not by an undergraduate, but by a Faculty member. Charles H. Cherington '35, instructor in Government, discusses "The Rising Profession of Public Administration," pointing out both its...