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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
Their work was lonely.
With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.
But his own work was evolving further.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

work and outstanding
Amateurs are serious about the work they do, providing outstanding examples of contributions to society ( Stebbins, 1992 ).
MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.
He then switched from physics to mathematics, and in 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree, simultaneously receiving his master of science degree by a special award of the faculty who considered his work outstanding.
Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.
They could reward an outstanding driver who had been at times extremely difficult to work with, or they could decide in favour of drivers ( McLaren / Amon ) with less commitment to the Ford program but who had been easier to deal with.
During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham announced he would submit an Early Day Motion to have Dalglish knighted, " not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough.
He did not do outstanding work there.
Gros Morne National Park has a reputation as an outstanding example of tectonics at work, and as such has been designated a World Heritage Site.
In 1983, Gordon was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.
The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.
More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.
Perhaps the most outstanding facet of the monumental work is its sheer length: a full performance of the cycle takes place over four nights at the opera, with a total playing time of about 15 hours, depending on the conductor's pacing.
According to many scholars the most outstanding work of Gombrowicz is Dziennik ( Diaries ), which was published in serial form in Kultura in 1953 – 1969.
* Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal " for outstanding work in the field of interplanetary communications " ( USSR )
The outstanding cultural leader was Carl Linnaeus ( 1707 – 78 ), whose work in biology and ethnography had a major impact on European science.
His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.
Historian Edwin Reischauer writes that genres such as the monogatari were distinctly Japanese and that Genji, written in kana, " was the outstanding work of the period ".
In 1899, he received the highest award of the Geological Society of London, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition of his outstanding work in the Southern Uplands, and Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
This is less formal, with boys being allowed to visit each other's rooms to socialise if neither boy has outstanding work.
If any boy produces an outstanding piece of work, it may be " Sent Up For Good ", storing the effort in the College Archives for posterity.
The five movement Symphonie fantastique, partly due to its fame, is considered by most to be Berlioz's most outstanding work, and the work had a considerable impact when first performed in 1830, 3 years after the death of Beethoven and 2 years after that of Schubert.
In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her " outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades.
This was not successful, but in 1916 work was started the Bristol F. 2A, which was developed into the highly successful F. 2B Bristol Fighter, one of the outstanding aircraft of the 1914-18 war and a mainstay of the R. A. F during the 1920s: it remained in service until 1931.

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