All 17 Uses of
superintendent
in
October Sky
- My father, Homer Hickam, was the mine superintendent, and our house was situated just a few hundred yards from the mine's entrance, a vertical shaft eight hundred feet deep.†
Chpt 1
- On an overlooking hill was the turreted mansion occupied by the company general superintendent, a man sent down by our owners in Ohio to keep an eye on their assets.†
Chpt 1
- When the Captain retired, my father, at the Captain's insistence, took over his position of mine superintendent.†
Chpt 4
- You might be the mine superintendent, but you've got the common miner's disease.†
Chpt 4
- Mr. Van Dyke was the mine's general superintendent, a courtly man with silver hair who had been sent by the steel company to keep watch on its holdings.†
Chpt 4
- "And you, being the Coalwood superintendent's son, can probably get all the materials you need.†
Chpt 5
- The county superintendent has suspended classes for everyone for the remainder of the day.†
Chpt 13
- Maybe if this was Welch High, the county superintendent would approve such a class, but not here.
Chpt 15 *superintendent = a person who directs and manages an organization
- The county superintendent would first have to approve it, and I can assure you he won't.†
Chpt 15
- The superintendent said five, but I insisted on six so all the boys in your pipe-bomb club could be in it.†
Chpt 15
- The general superintendent came down off the porch and solemnly shook his hand.†
Chpt 18
- After the general superintendent was through with me, I tried to bike out of town central, but Mr. Dubonnet caught me outside the union hall.†
Chpt 19
- In any case, a new general superintendent was being sent to Coalwood to make sure the sale of the houses and the churches and the utilities stayed on track.†
Chpt 21
- THE temporary general superintendent sent down by the steel mill in Youngstown was a man named Fuller.†
Chpt 21
- With the other boys still fanning smoke out the windows, I quickly explained to the new general superintendent about our rocket-building and what the alcohol was for.†
Chpt 21
- A new general superintendent arrived a week later, a Mr. Bundini.†
Chpt 22
- "I just made five dollars off the county superintendent," he said, nearly grinning.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(superintendent) a person who directs and manages an organization -- such as a school district
or:
a caretaker of a building -- such as an apartment building