Word: toiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong love for each other, set their backs resolutely on the civilization of their youth and rode forth into the promised land. Their adventures on the trail, their life among the rugged Titans who held the frontier forts against the redmen and the King's men, the pain, toil, and rewards, which they shared alike with their neighbors, form the theme of Miss Robert's narrative...
...work days?three a week, the members having furiously opposed a four-day week, though for laboring men they favor six toil days between Sundays...
...whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids they had to look out for sting rays. It took them 27 days of "most persistent toil" to make 180 miles -which was 60 miles in a straight line...