settlement worker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below me are two painters and a settlement worker, and next door is a blind Anarchist and a Yiddish poet.
From The Machine by Sinclair, Upton
Perhaps six times a year Miss Toland went to Sausalito for a few days, and then, during her first year as a settlement worker, Julia went to her grandmother's house.
From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
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