Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, Archaeologist Samuel Hubbard, of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, financed by Edward L. Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is...
The Story of a parson outgrowing his profession, turning bitterly on his congregation with the news that Christianity is outlived, that God has left his church and returned to the fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press...
"routine business," another man might call extraordinary exertion. Long, closely-written technical papers were read on city planning, surveys, irrigation, highways, topography, etc. Among the notables present were Engineers Morris Knowles of Pittsburgh (city planner), President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (flood control specialist), President George S. Davison of...
The fact remains, as every physician and many a patient knows, that the doctor's fees are fitted to his patient's purse. Those Illinois doctors may charge the double fees to neurasthenics, cranks and flustery mothers with ill-natured babies whose night calls are unwarranted. The rich...
That he became perhaps the greatest painter ever born of U. S. parents was due in part to inheritance from a father whose very integrity overruled his prejudice against what, in 1870 when John Sargent was 14, was regarded as a profession not quite respectable.