Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The professorial profession is the only comfortable one," Sorokin insists. Then, pulling pamphlets and books in five different languages from his desk, he says: "Besides, quite a number of people seem to attach significance to my work. I probably compete for the position of the most translated scholar."
Weyman's real name:Stephen Weinberg. His lifetime profession: impostor. Brooklyn-born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once...
"The Doctor in Spite of Himself," like many other of Moliere's plays, satirizes the medical profession of his day.
Even the super-efficient U.S. auto industry can hardly beat such efficiency; it orders 40% of all its auto frames from A. O. Smith. The company has made a profession of revolutionizing mass-production techniques. It has become the world's largest maker of steel pipe, also turns out...
It is Paris in the uneasy spring of 1936. Sitdowns close the factories, riots clog the streets, a Popular Front cabinet maneuvers for its life. To a Jules Remains or a Jean Paul Sartre this is the ideal setting for a lugubrious social novel. But not to Marcel Aymé...