Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Medicine is a profession which, perhaps more than any other, involves personal contact," he explained. You've got to be a man to be a doctor, and you can't develop personally by spending all your time over books.
...called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin D., or as that Roosevelt; Swedes either speak of good...
From then on Jelly rose steadily to fame in his chosen profession, performing at places like Aunt Lucy's, Gypsy Schaeffer's and the Frenchman's. Waxing prosperous, he adorned his massive smile with a set of gold teeth, studded one of them with a diamond. In...
"Law" he said, "is a profession which demands a tremendous sweep of knowledge. In order fully to understand the Infinitely varied claims that the lawyer has to argue, he must be a truly civilized man. I therefore heartily approve of the broad college program made possible by the new combined...
Twenty-two-year-old Katharine is a nurse by profession but her hobby is perhaps the most dangerous sport in the world-driving a four-man bobsled. Last week she competed at Lake Placid against five of the most skillful U. S. drivers for the national senior bobsled championship.