Word: professionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The voice of Sir Thomas is often raised against "the Godless and shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather...
...Angeles, trekked back to Phoenix, Ariz., where he opened a gymnasium and taught boxing. John Henry Lewis was ready to enter his father's business at 16. He did so without the preface, customary for such young fisticuffers, of fighting as an amateur. Instead, he took all the professional fights he could find, in the course of which he gradually worked his way up to the top of his class by the time he had acquired his full growth - 6 ft. & 172 Ib. James J. Braddock, now heavyweight champion of the world, beat him once, lost to him once...
...prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair...
In the vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim."
But Dr. Winter remained long a prophet without honor in the profession. He lectured on the one tooth in America and England. He wrote a 835-page volume and made sound movies to show how the offending wisdom tooth can be quickly extracted without the usual danger of butchery. Once...