Word: professional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I was expecting yet another attack on America's latest whipping boy, the medical profession. Instead, I was pleased to find a clear, concise and unbiased account of an emotionally charged issue.
William McGill, Columbia University's president since 1970, on his retirement next year at 58: "Ten years in my profession makes me an old man."
Newspaper editors have a fear that they aren't admired enough. John Hughes, who retired this month as editor of the Christian Science Monitor and last month completed a term as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, warned his colleagues in a farewell address that "our profession...
The latest in a succession of spectacular failures (including, besides Hartford, the collapse in 1978 of the snow-laden auditorium roof at the C.W. Post Center in Brookville, N.Y.), the Kemper disaster sent worried architects scurrying back to study their latest designs. There is widespread fear that the reputation of...
DIED. Eric Partridge, 85, indefatigable English lexicographer and student of the language's quirks and conventions; in Devon, England. Born in New Zealand and educated in Australia and at Oxford, the tall, spare Partridge abandoned a budding career as an English professor (he feared he would become "a bloody...