Example Sentences

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If I’d known I was going to turn into a writer, I would have taken Secretarial Sciences instead of Home Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

Um, so for example, she made training plans for elite secretaries at Katie Gibbs Secretarial School, if you've ever heard of that.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

There were the “Gibbs girls,” the typists in training at the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, which leased two floors of the hotel to house its students.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

The respectable Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School took over three floors of the hotel for its students, as it filled up with young women “determined to type their way out of small-town America”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2021

WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination.

From The Human Chord by Blackwood, Algernon