Word: toiled
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...money that Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden has just gained at The Hague after weeks of anxious toil (see p. 25) has been thrown away in a few days on the sands of Palestine, from which we shall never receive a penny in return either in cash, trade, prestige or political advantage...
...Thomas James Garland, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, is a shrewd, hard worker, not without a sense of humor. Born in Ireland, he has lived in Pennsylvania more than a quarter-century. His long toil in the vineyard has thinned and dried him. His diocese is wealthy...
...These toil-numbed minions apparently failed to investigate sufficiently the fiscal backing of a succession of corporations which the Professor founded to deal in Reparations sugar...
...visited a refinery or sales station or producing property of the company. Nor outside of one or two officers or directors do they know a person in the entire organization. The present prosperity of this company has not just happened; it is the result of earnest, loyal work and toil from the board of directors to office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence...
...smell summer and start to make more honey, under the impression, although unable to explain that tired feeling, that they have overslept and must hurry to overtake their work. When winter comes to Australia, the process will be reversed, and the brutally deluded insects will be rudely awakened to toil once more in Washington...