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Word: handbarrow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles of my arms were swollen. I ate some potatoes roasted upon cinders and threw myself in all my clothes on to my bed: a pile of straw. At five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bricklayer's Autograph | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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