Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hundred and sixteen Seniors replied to Palmer's survey, and more than two-thirds indicated one of these occupations as their future profession. The remaining third listed a number of variegated undertakings, ranging from archeology, aviation, piano making, and the theatre, to comic art, puppetry, and pioneering agricultural work...
The Case of the Curious Bride (Warner). Perry Mason (Warren William) belongs to the new school of cinema detectives. A lawyer by profession, an amateur chef by avocation, he investigates crime mainly for his own exhilaration. In The Case of the Curious Bride he is thrown into a state of...
Like many biographers of more or less obscure public men, or men prominent only in their own profession, Chamberlain has included pages of genealogy which are interesting only to members of the family and has magnified the virtues of his subject without placing his faults in the proper strong light...
Blond, curly-headed James R. Collins was sitting around the restaurant at Roosevelt Field Hotel with other unemployed pilots, smoking, sipping coffee, jesting casually about his profession. Since 1929 when he quit as chief test pilot for Curtiss, he had been a free-lance specialist on power dives.
Among the 2,000 who reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not...