Word: vocationalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By juggling their test with physical, aptitude and intelligence tests, Messrs. Humm & Wadsworth claim to be able to direct an individual almost unerringly to the right vocation. Some of their deductions: too much self-control (i.e., overconservatism) is as bad as too little; a good foreman must be cheerful, self...
Of all modern artists, Joyce was the most bitterly uncompromising, the most torturously responsible to his vocation; as a result, he was "the most self-centered of universal minds." His obsessive subjects, the city and the artist, bracketed the whole conflicted matter and spirit of modern civilization. A Portrait of...
In this picture Bogart, though his profession as a big-shot gambler is not the most honorable vocation, is a likeable person who is unjustly accused of murder. With the police hot on his trail, he manages to clear himself, catch a ring of German spies, and acquire a beautiful...
Favorite vocation of National Scholars from the classes of 1938-40 is business, which takes in advertising and publicity, chemical and physical research, personnel, and production. Close behind is law, but strangely enough, medicine is very low in the scale.
Said young, martyred Mr. Lindbergh: "This is not a life that I enjoy. Speaking is not my vocation and political life is not my ambition. ... I have done this because I believe my country is in mortal danger."