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Becoming a nanny required a long, menial apprenticeship, beginning with a scrub brush on the nursery floor. In time, a girl with nanny-potential could move up to undernurse, then nurse, and finally full nanny. The author dates the flourishing of this system from about 1850, when the Industrial Revolution increased the wealthy class in England and pried a large population of potential servants loose from the land...
ASWARM of 161 potential China pundits arrived at Kirkland House on July 4 to begin ten days of apprenticeship with Harvard's most celebrated Sinologist, John K. Fairbank, and his wife, Wilma, at the Alumni College...
Within the Department of Buildings and Grounds there is an apprenticeship program designed to train employees as licensed electricians, plumbers, carpenters, sheet metal workers...
Secretariat's capacity for food was a handicap when Laurin began training him for his apprenticeship as a two-year-old. The name of the training game is patience. A horse has to gallop a mere slow mile a day before his muscles are in shape to gallop two miles. He has to gallop two slow miles a day for a long time before he is in shape to do any running. He has to run slow before he is ready to run fast, and short distances like a furlong or two before he is ready to run farther...
...being Irish and Catholic and the son of a man desperately insecure about his social footing. Later, when O'Hara turned to New York cafe society for the setting of Butterfield 8, he was also working with something he had known intimately in the course of his journalistic apprenticeship. Throughout his career, when he dealt with these worlds-or with Hollywood, where he also did time as a scriptwriter-his fiction rang not only with the good dialogue but rumbled with a ground base of moral disapproval as well. Farr notes that he never entirely succeeded in sloughing...