Word: toiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that it is not the protected women of wealth but the women who toil who will suffer...
...coupled with an inborn sympathy for people close to the land. Such a novel as this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this traditional Americanization of America, the fact remains that "Three Steeples" stands as a powerful...
...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...
Most men who hold doctor's degrees from British universities (excepting doctors of medicine) receive them not for toil and research but as a mark of honor. Discriminatingly do British universities hand out kudos. Of three reasons most cogent to U. S. universities (to encourage or pay for endowment donations; to publicize themselves; to render genuine homage to great men), most often are the British guided by the third, marking with distinction the authentic great. None so marked can consider himself more highly honored than he who receives from Oxford University a degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Last...
...doing. It is not work, it is pleasure, it is joy. We do not say to ourselves 'Now we will spend so much on a moving picture.' We say, 'We will make the best that is in us. We will dream over it, we will toil over it, and if we put our hearts into it we will make something that will entertain and inspire the American public...