Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral."
The Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of...
Herbert Hoover, who made himself a successful mining engineer before he went into public life, is nowhere near being the extraordinarily wealthy man that he might have been if he had returned to his profession. He did not take any pay as Food Administrator, and as Secretary of Commerce and...
Thus in 1935, when Massachusetts passed a "Teachers Oath" requiring all instructors to support the constitution. Conant opposed the bill before the Legislature as an unnecessary reflection on the teaching profession, but did not like Professor Kirtley Mather, at first refuse to sign the oath once it had become law...
The Fox version of Outcasts concerns itself primarily with a bank robber, the robber's wife, and the gambler, plus considerable window dressing provided by other blizzard-bound characters. It also makes a remarkable value judgment to the effect that bank robbers are a scurvy lot, while full time gamblers...