Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return to England, he received?like several of the then rising generation?his political apprenticeship as assistant private secretary to the great Lord Salisbury. Once embarked upon a career of statescraft, he rose rapidly and held many of the more important cabinet positions. He did not become Prime Minister for the all-important reason that, since Lord Salisbury's third term of office (1895-1902), no British Premier has been a member of the House of Lords, and it now seems to be an established custom that Premiers must henceforth be members of the House of Commons...
...Story. By dogged, self-determined ways, pale young Martin Arrowsmith made himself a doctor. What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know...
...They will have to earn their pay, but the manufacturing of automobiles out of uncertain materials will not, said Ford, be their first consideration. They will really be paid to study industrial conditions, the relationship of Ford to Labor, so that, at the end of their apprenticeship, they may submit elaborate reports of their findings to the Ford Industrial Research Bureau. For the best report, there is promised a "handsome prize." "What is meant by handsome?" asked Yale students warily, seeing in vision four lean wheels, an impertinent bonnet, an upholstered rattle...
...column on Joe Lincoln in your Nov. 10 issue makes no mention of Lincoln's apprenticeship on the old L. A. W. Bulletin and his association with Nixon Waterman. J. FOSTER MOORE...
...increase in the calibre of reporters to fit their larger importance. The evolution of journalism into a profession would help to accomplish this; but like all lasting reforms, it can be brought about only through the efforts of journalists themselves. At present the lack of a long period of apprenticeship, which is required of the embryo doctor, lawyer, or clergyman, militates heavily against such a promotion...