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Definition of Assistants
1. assistant [n] - See also: assistant
Literary usage of Assistants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1922)
"Library Assistants and the Summer School IS the library school necessarily the
best place for the young library assistant to spend the summer in study? ..."
2. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"The assistants who first ordered affairs in Massachusetts were elected in England
... During the first three or four years the assistants, as an executive, ..."
3. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1899)
"Besides, ler"s solicitude respecting the pending this was only a Court of
Assistants, and question of the ecclesiastical constitu- the Assistants had no ..."
4. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1889)
"In consideration of this the Assistants would forego their veto. ... The Assistants
were elected as the representatives of the whole body, the Deputies as ..."
5. Bulletin by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Marcus Baker, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States Geographic Board (1890)
"THE Assistants. Names and titles To carry on the work outlined, the following
assistants have of assistants. . ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"His attack upon the expensive system of dinners of the courts of assistants and
of examiners, and his philippic on retiring from office on 1 July 1790, ..."
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