Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certified public accountant is a professional man, a specialist, who offers his services to the public on a fee basis, like physicians, scientists, lawyers and engineers. He is subject to the same type of ethical restrictions relating to advertising and soliciting new clients as govern the other professions...
Grossmann, who is listed in the University Directory as a "Specialist in Book Selection," said the books were rejects. "No College libraries want them, and they're not worth keeping as duplicates because they are in such little demand," he explained...
...fists, see the top of his head go pink with anger. Some diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix of murder, assassination, conspiracy and intrigue that has been Soviet official life in the last 30 years, Vishinsky, a man of non-proletarian origin and a onetime dissenter, not only survived, but built a brilliant career...
...Merrill, 69, senior partner of New York's investment house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, gave $400,000 to Harvard Medical School (endowment: $23 million). Banker Merrill (an Amherst man himself) made the gift to establish a special professorship for heart diseases, to be named for Harvard Heart Specialist Samuel A. Levine. Dr. Levine. 63, the son of Polish immigrants, peddled newspapers in downtown Boston as a child, went through Harvard College and Medical School (Class of '14) on a scholarship from the Boston Newsboys' Union. A leading authority on coronary thrombosis, Levine is Merrill...
...argue that it produced a better game and allowed many more boys to play, but close football is often a very fine substitute for professional football, particularly on the amateur level. Admittedly, there were many more boys who played under the old two-platoon rules, but perhaps the resultant specialist was not a football player in the complete sense of the word...