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- The thick rabbit and prickly-pear-ridden scrub of the brigalow and belah country was reclaimed from expiring leases in the 1920s and the back-breaking work of rendering it fit for agriculture did not bear fruit until the 1950s when wheat-growing became and remains a highly successful enterprise.
- The photographs do not show the back-breaking work of cultivation and harvest, but only offer a glimpse of spring plowing.
- Flat-bottomed boats made of marine plywood carry the sand which has to be dug up from the river bed with waist-high waters – back-breaking work for those involved.
- Croft work was hard, back-breaking work which yielded a subsistence living.
- Presumably in other parts of town communist comrades would be undertaking the same back-breaking work and celebrating any high points together in much the same way.
- In an atmosphere of overwhelming hopelessness and despair, where back-breaking work only leads peasants deeper and deeper into debt, both characters turn to gambling in search of making a quick profit.
- But George Clausen's depiction of the back-breaking work of "Gathering Potatoes", painted at nearby Dannes in 1887, reflects concerns that are a constant in his output of the time.
- Lured by the myth of the Gold Mountain (金山), she and her countrymen travel to Canada by the thousands to do the back-breaking work of blasting through the mountains to lay track.
- While many men were needed for the back-breaking work of hauling a purse seine manually, the same work could be done by fewer men with a power block.
- Most work was pre-mechanised, so back-breaking [...] work included ploughing the fields.
- Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as "philanthropists" who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages to generate profit for their masters.
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