Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banking is, in many respects, a profession; and just as the lawyer, doctor, and dentist must go to a professional school to learn his profession, so must the banker spend a comparable time in learning his profession. With no professional schools for bankers, comparable training is accomplished through job experience...
...dedicates himself to two primary endeavors--the exercise of his professional skill and the advancement of his profession to answer the changing and increasing demands of society. With the conviction that his work is socially valuable, he must have the desire to serve unselfishly and without being dominated by the expectation of monetary rewards...
Died. Israel Amter, 73, one of the founders (in 1919) of the Communist Party in the U.S.; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. A pianist and composer by profession, Amter was a tireless leader of demonstrations of the unemployed, frequently his party's candidate (unsuccessful) for U.S. Senator...
Wedding Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee...
In the national Catholic weekly, America, the shop's manager, who uses the pen name .Margaret Montgomery, tells of this and scores of similar incidents she experienced in a "profession . . . where the sublime and the ridiculous dwell together in an absurd, often unholy . . . union." Among her examples: