industrial school
Example Sentences
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He dwells upon the ugliness of the Baltimore slums where Ruth was born and the Alcatraz-like atmosphere of the Catholic industrial school where the Babe was sequestered for 10 years as a youth.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
There, overcoming the poor education she received in the industrial school, she eventually went to college and became an elementary schoolteacher.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2018
She was removed from her home and confined in the industrial school and laundry system until age 19 — three years after the expiration of the judge’s order making her a ward of the court.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2018
Ruth's parents abandoned him to a Roman Catholic industrial school specializing in "incorrigible" boys when he was an oversize, undereducated kid, and he went right from it into baseball.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They called it an industrial school, but yes.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
