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  • Most important, it is hard to tell how much of a mentor's success will carry over.

    Hey, Want to Try My Fund? Joe Light 2011

  • Even as a judge, the mentor's always going to be on his or her contestant's side.

    Former X Factor Contestants React to Shakeup 2012

  • But in the majority of those covers he was: swinging into the scene four times (twice rescuing Batman). tackling a bad guy twice (once on his own under his giant mentor's approving gaze). helping a wirewalking Batman by throwing something at a crook in a really confusing and awkward composition.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • He was known as "Johnny" Lewis early in his career, but after learning the finer points of bunting from veteran infielder Buddy Myer, he acquired his mentor's nickname, as well.

    Buddy Lewis, Nats star and WWII pilot, dies at 94 2011

  • But in the majority of those covers he was: swinging into the scene four times (twice rescuing Batman). tackling a bad guy twice (once on his own under his giant mentor's approving gaze). helping a wirewalking Batman by throwing something at a crook in a really confusing and awkward composition.

    Robin Takes Charge of the Case 2009

  • He played opposite Cassavetes in the comedy Mikey and Nicky (also 1976) and then took a cameo role in his friend and mentor's superb Opening Night (1977).

    Peter Falk obituary 2011

  • Of course that young person might hear something (s) he wasn't eager to learn, as presumably the mentor's children have had to do from time to time.

    Kling vs. Lang, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When Mr. Winslow's story starts, it's 1951 and Hel is sprung from a Tokyo prison—where he has been sent for assisting in his Japanese mentor's honor-suicide—in exchange for agreeing to carry out an American-conceived assassination of a Russian minister in Beijing.

    Fighting Crime, Vexed by the Past Tom Nolan 2011

  • With his mentor's blessing and considerable help, Kuhn began to look elsewhere for an independent position.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

  • At 42, Thom left the Erickson office, discouraged by his mentor's complicated relation to fame and fortune.

    Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom Philip Kennicott 2010

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