Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary, the intruding student is apt to wish that his taste for the finer courtesies had been better adapted to this new environment in the Reading Room at Gore Hall...
...working life began as a reporter on the News Letter of Dublin. In 1870 he started for London in search of a more promising position, and soon after was appointed sub-editor of the Daily Telegraph. After a period of apprenticeship in the London office of the New York Herald, realizing that there his prospects were small, he struck out for himself...
...minority in a selfish and oppressive way. They have shown themselves an ignorant and corrupt oligarchy and all the evidence goes to prove that they were about to attack England at the first opportunity. The fact that should have weight with Americans is the oppressive and cruel apprenticeship, so-called, under which the blacks are held, forming a condition practically equalling that in America before the Civil...