Word: journeymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief in the importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part of a community and not simply journeymen in some guild...
...comment of Western Reserve University students that Case Institute of Technology engineers were "plumbers" was noted here by management and journeymen with less than enthusiasm. The local union scale is $5 hourly. The take-home of the plumber isn't something to be ridiculed, being $10,400 annually, less fringes. It is doubtful if the junior engineer's salary is that formidable. I guess that the mentioning of this segment of the construction industry in a dubious manner is something with which we'll have to live...
Demolition on the site will not begin until new housing is found for the residents, and subsidized, if necessary. By the agreement reached last week, at least one-third of all journeymen and one-half of all apprentice workers building the school will be recruited from minority groups, and a "substantial number of contracts" will be placed with Negro businessmen in the area...
...point last week, Administration fiscal journeymen let it be known that, just in case the present "inflation" turns into something more serious, they already are drawing up plans to increase both personal and corporate taxes. But neither of these is attractive-especially in a congressional election year. Therefore Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler swiftly denied that any such studies were under way, inveighed against "the same voices which have been historically preoccupied with inflation-they were apprehensive about inflation...
...Joan of Arc was 17 when she took Orléans from the English, and Ivan the Terrible was the same age when he hounded the boyars to death and had himself crowned czar. But for ordinary people, particularly under the long-prevalent guild system of apprentices and journeymen, life was a slow progression toward experience and eventual reward...