Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Star Farmer award is the highest that can come to one of the 383,000 members of the Future Farmers of America, a voluntary organization that includes more than 95% of all U.S. high-school boys taking vocational agriculture courses. Since it was founded in 1928, the F.F.A., along...
One of the modern reforms instituted by Spain's short-lived (1931-36) democratic republic was the outlawry of prostitution. When Dictator Franco seized power, he reinstituted prostitution, set a minimum age of 23 for admission to the profession, charged the police with responsibility for seeing that prostitutes were...
In India, Prime Minister Nehru's government turned down a request from the New York Times for permission to print its daily international edition in India,* because of a new regulation against printing "Indian editions of foreign periodicals which deal mainly with news and current affairs." This was the...
"I believe that Rocky is an honorable man," says Archie. "I figured all along that eventually we would meet . . . Boxing is a profession that is as beautiful as it is brutal. It can be as beautiful as an opera. You can see a man's thoughts, and over those...
To Herman Wouk himself, The Caine Mutiny brought the Pulitzer Prize (1951), nearly a million dollars in cash, countless autograph hunters (whom he loves), countless requests for speaking engagements (most of which he declines), and several thousand letters (all of which he answered). But to Novelist Wouk, a cool customer...