Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The two men, John Hall and Charles Ford, were new appointees with brand new Ph.D.'s and with serious plans for their own scholarly achievements. Both men were tall and thin, and both were blond. If a colleague in another department did not know them very well, he might even...
During the third week in October, Briggs left messages in both of their letterboxes, requesting that they come to see him at eleven o'clock. They entered his office together, and he motioned for them to sit down. There was a letter on his desk, and he read it through...
Yovicsin's coaching career goes back to the war years when he taught in a Southern New Jersey high school, coached football there and, practicing nights, played professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles. As Yovicsin puts it, however, "My future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
Edward J. Geary, assistant professor of Romance Languages, attributed the new emphasis to "an increased interest in international affairs," and contact with other cultures with which Americans cannot communicate adequately. He added that interest has grown within the profession, beginning during World War II when new methods were devised to...
Vincent van Gogh was 27 when he found his profession; he was 37 when he died. In the ten years he painted more than 800 canvases, turned out as many or more drawings and watercolors. There is hardly a step of the way that his letters do not chronicle and...