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  • He has even invented the words ‘college-bred’ and one can see that education opens to man or woman doors that only birth or wealth would open here.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • The field of service for the college and the college-bred;: Commencment address to the graduating class of Clemson Agricultural College, by Harry Luman Russell

    Clemson Steps into a USN&WR Rankings Mess 2009

  • I'm so glad that you've used your actual life experience on the floor, instead of your college-bred ideologies, Nancy, to comment on what's wrong with this picture: atomized literalist geeky takes on data flows and lefty lockstep ideological prescriptions about "special interests".

    Conyers: Lessig's Corruption Charge "Crosses the Line" Scola, Nancy 2009

  • The power of such notions among the college-bred is suggested by a statement of Mr. John W. Dean III: 'I would like to be a writer.

    Knocking Around 2006

  • The power of such notions among the college-bred is suggested by a statement of Mr. John W. Dean III: 'I would like to be a writer.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • In papers read to the Monday Evening Club, and in his new book manuscript, he portrayed labor as a noble movement; the trained mechanic as cultural hero; the workingman as “the rightful sovereign of this world,”12 America as the successor to Europe in human enlightenment, and the progress-driven 19th century itself as “the only century worth living in since time itself was invented,” thanks to “the creation of men not college-bred.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • In papers read to the Monday Evening Club, and in his new book manuscript, he portrayed labor as a noble movement; the trained mechanic as cultural hero; the workingman as “the rightful sovereign of this world,”12 America as the successor to Europe in human enlightenment, and the progress-driven 19th century itself as “the only century worth living in since time itself was invented,” thanks to “the creation of men not college-bred.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the

    Walden 2004

  • This is about as much as the college-bred generally do or aspire to do, and they take an English paper for the purpose.

    Walden 2004

  • The college-bred star has the kind of polish that will get him in the majors quickly.

    Poor pitching has Dodgers blue 1999

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