settlement worker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist.
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
But Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker.
From Time Magazine Archive
I learned a lesson from each one of them; but I shall never forget what I learned from the kind-hearted, philanthropic Mrs. Belshow, a prominent settlement worker in a large city.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
Theodora Crossman, the settlement worker, inquired particularly whether Georgiana were doing anything worth while, using that pregnant modern phrase which has been decidedly overworked, yet6 which hardly can be spared from the present-day vocabulary.
From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances
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