Word: apprenticeships
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Unlike the Oxford Dictionary of American English, which set out to record all words ever used by Americans (the project on which Editor Mathews served his apprenticeship), the Dictionary of Americanisms includes only those stamped unmistakably with the label "Made in U.S.A." To find them, Mathews plowed through the 100 volumes of the Colonial Records of New England, searched back issues of The New Yorker and TIME, followed Li'l Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from...
...potential free-lance writer, DeVoto said, must have some other means of support during his years of "apprenticeship" before he can hope to earn a living by writing...
...illustrated his points by recalling all the mistakes he had made when serving his apprenticeship under the noted west coast attorney, Earl Rogers. "Luckily," he added, "all my judges were sweethearts...
...chairman of Rolls-Royce, who became a baron seven months ago, still considers himself "only a mechanic." When he came to Rolls 42 years ago, fresh from secondary school and an apprenticeship in a machine shop, Hives was put to work at a bench in the Rolls plant. He showed such a talent for engineering that he quickly climbed the ladder to become head of Rolls's auto and air experimental station, later chief experimental engineer. Always one for seeing projects through from drafting board to trial run, Hives tested new engines by driving them in racing cars. During...
...glass seen through a watery film. His colors are very much his own, but his compositions are not; when reproduced in black & white they appear to rest solidly on the cubist experiments of Braque and Picasso. Afro's close harmonies of color and texture also reflect his long apprenticeship as a decorative artist. His delicate yet decisive lines and contrapuntal arrangement of shapes show a draftsmanship that comes only from long study...