Word: dogooding
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many friends, among them Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania. At Keith...