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• The Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in 1981 by Michael Freedman — about an infinite network of discs — after years of solitary toil on the California coast.

• The best applications are often those made at the last minute, because applicants do not overthink their responses and toil over details they think need to be shoved into a question.

• Yes, progress is being made, but it must be faster if the current toils of agency execs are anything to go by.

• What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

• In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.

• But football is a game in which a moment of magic can undo an hour of toil.

• These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

• He was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.

• Not too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.

• He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.

• Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.

• The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.