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worked and clothier
Beginning his career early, Cardin, aged 14, worked as a clothier ’ s apprentice, learning the basics of fashion design and construction.

worked and London
She worked for Unilever ( 1973 – 75 ) and then as an administrator at the University of London ( 1975 – 87 ) before entering Parliament.
After leaving college in 1963 Fulcher worked as an assistant at the design company Michael Tucker + Associates in London.
From 1906 to 1909, Attlee worked as manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working class boys in Stepney in the East End of London run by his old school.
More also DJed on pirate radio, hosting the Meltdown Show on Kiss FM and worked at the Reckless Records store on Berwick Street, London where Black visited as a customer.
He came from a prosperous family, worked briefly as a lawyer in the 1820s, and held the post of Professor of Geology at King's College London in the 1830s.
Foster was approached by a friend who worked in a theatre in the West End of London during casting for the musical Oliver !.
Elizabeth worked steadily at the development of the New Hospital for Women, and ( from 1874 ) at the creation of the London School of Medicine for Women.
Both institutions have since been handsomely and suitably housed and equipped, the New hospital for Women ( in the Euston Road ) for many years being worked entirely by medical women, and the schools ( in Hunter Street, WC1 ) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree of London University ( the present-day University College London ), which was opened to women in 1877.
Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled " Why You Are You.
At Wallington he worked on " England Your England " and in London wrote reviews for various periodicals.
Records show that gunpowder was being made, in England, in 1346, at the Tower of London ; a powder house existed at the Tower in 1461 ; and in 1515 three King's gunpowder makers worked there.
For the next two years, Hoover worked 14-hour days from London, administering the distribution of over two million tons of food to nine million war victims.
After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board ( where his successor as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young ) in 1963, and he decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking.
From 1598 Dowland worked at the court of Christian IV of Denmark, though he continued to publish in London.
Philby worked at first as a freelance journalist ; from May 1937, he served as a correspondent for the Times of London, reporting from the side of the pro-Franco forces.
It later emerged that the agent – known as Schmidt – had also worked as an informant for the Rote Kapelle organisation, which sent information to both London and Moscow.
For a large sum of money, Volkov offered the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain, two of whom worked in the Foreign Office and a third who worked in counter-espionage in London.
She worked as a guest artist with Roland Petit's Le Ballet National de Marseilles, the Bolshoi Ballet, the London Festival Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, and the Eliot Feld Ballet.
Her work in Egyptology took place largely alongside her mentor and friend, the archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, whom she worked alongside at University College London.
That turned out not to be so, and Philip Gell of the OUP forced the promotion of Murray's assistant Henry Bradley ( hired by Murray in 1884 ), who worked independently in the British Museum in London, beginning in 1888.
Whereas previously the OUP had thought London too far from Oxford, after 1925 Craigie worked on the dictionary in Chicago, where he was a professor.

worked and was
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.
As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.
It should be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots that were open last year, but so far it hasn't worked that way.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
Brittany, that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days, sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads, had worked some subtle change in him, he knew, and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre.
Mrs. Andrus was talking to the maid, arranging for her to come in every day, instead of the four days she now worked.
He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.
Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.
It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.
An elaborate system of accounting and reports was worked out, and the trade was to be managed in the most scientific way.
She thought it was sometime during the second week she worked for Stanley.
Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.
Because he copiously shed his own tears, and yielded himself up as a living sacrifice to the impersonalized conscience of New England, he was not disturbed by the havoc he worked in other people's consciences.

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