settlement worker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A certain settlement worker in New York City in charge of a club of fourteen- to eighteen-year-old boys tried to arouse an interest in literature, using one plan after another without success.
From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)
It must not be forgotten, then, that the first settlement worker of modern times, the dear St. Elizabeth of Hungary, is one of the great influences that will never die.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
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