Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, 100 professional dancers unionized themselves against "gigolos" who, by their "insidious manners" and second-rate dancing, have discredited the profession. Hereafter at public halls, a dancer must have a union card to be allowed to lead rich ladies onto the floor at 100 francs per dance...
...strain." It is quite different to maintain that "today in our Universities a varsity athlete to be successful must devote more time to athletics than to any other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they are no longer amateurish, but are fast becoming professional not so much in the popular sense that athletes are being paid, but in the sense that the varsity athlete makes his sport his vocation, his profession...
To stimulate Seals sale and to report to the medical profession, Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York City department of health's bureau of laboratories, last week announced: "There is good reason to believe that the Calmette-Guérin vaccine has been effective in giving protection against...
It was to the Calmette-Guérin vaccine that Manhattan's Dr. Park referred last week. The U. S. profession has been skeptical of its value, although Drs. Calmette and Guérin have tested it with apparent success on more than 100,000 French infants. Rumanian, German, and English experience...
"Gentlemen of the newspaper profession" he intoned, grinning, to the talking newsreel machine, "I want to thank you for your kind reception tonight. I hope you will have another opportunity, and I know you will, for a little more training and then I believe you will show marked improvement."