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Working at a university is, I think, good for my sense of perspective and a good antidote for the occasional work-a-day ennui.
Maybe the only constant is change da_lj 2010
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Working at a university is, I think, good for my sense of perspective and a good antidote for the occasional work-a-day ennui.
Maybe the only constant is change da_lj 2010
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While the author's chief interest is in detailing work-a-day commerce at Chungking Mansions, he does not neglect its colorful leisure-time activities.
Commerce in the Rough Paul Karl Lukacs 2011
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In safe, surroundings, so that they can return, a tad refreshed, to their work-a-day lives, in increasingly challenging circumstances.
Page 2 2010
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While the author's chief interest is in detailing work-a-day commerce at Chungking Mansions, he does not neglect its colorful leisure-time activities.
Commerce in the Rough Paul Karl Lukacs 2011
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He brought a trained mind to put down with untroubled vision what he saw of a certain phase of work-a-day life.
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010
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With that graph in mind, and the perfunctory passing of Labor Day, these pictures and quotes remind me how America romanticized the working class, the policeman, the firefighters, and the maintenance and construction workers as heros, the same way America lionized the work-a-day soldiers committed to extracting revenge for the attacks.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: As 9/11 and the New World Trade Center Overrun Labor Day Michael Shaw 2011
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In safe, surroundings, so that they can return, a tad refreshed, to their work-a-day lives, in increasingly challenging circumstances.
Page 2 2010
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I dream of the day when I can quit my work-a-day assistanting.
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In safe, surroundings, so that they can return, a tad refreshed, to their work-a-day lives, in increasingly challenging circumstances.
Page 2 2010
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