Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a...
President-elect Elmer Henderson sounded the war cry: "Let's face our battle of Armageddon . . . No other profession, in . . . this country, has been brought under such violent attack by those ambitious for political power over it . . ."
Imported Virus. Sitting at the back of the room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public...
At 60, squat, articulate Dr. Fishbein was still full of energy and plans. Said he: "I don't feel like relaxing. There is no fixed retirement age for human beings. I have been associated recently with five men over 80 in the medical profession, and they are still doing...
The notion of awarding a B.A. after sophomore year scandalized the rest of the educational profession. On the University of Wisconsin campus the Chicago B.A. was called the Bastard of Arts. The Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women "deplored" it. It was, recalls Hutchins, "an...