Word: toils
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...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...
...Your very magnificence is bought at the expense of the underpaid and sacrificing toil of thousands. I'm not sure that North Carolina can afford your magnificence. It's a question of whether the common welfare is to be sacrificed for the opulence of the few. . . . Mr. Duke was lacking in social insight. There can be no doubt that the power he developed is now the rightful property of the people of North and South Carolina and the surrounding States...
...When the Emperor of India got to the part of his speech in which he announced that, after seven years of toil, the India Report was ready (see col. 2). His Majesty said with visible emotion: "I pray that both your Houses, upon whom now rests the responsibility for deciding these issues, may approach the task before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my Empire...
...Many hundreds have toiled here and the work of many thousands all over the country has helped their toil. I thank all those whose effort has achieved this miracle...
...roots of its might lie in the glorious past, in the German race, German earth and German toil. Service in the army is service of honor to the German nation...