Other times, it might take age-long trawls through ancient and mouldering volumes at your local library, much to the annoyance of any present librarians and allergy sufferers.
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Have we not got enough cathedrals without propping up our old, mouldering monasteries?
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The light, castingsmoulderhas a dispute with his employer, but the heavy castingsmoulderhas not, and he is not deprived of unemployment benefit.
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Take the case of the light castingsmoulderand the heavy castingsmoulder, which are totally different industries.
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Take an engineering shop, where engineers and moulders were employed.
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However, a house or a painting, for example, canmoulderaway.
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We have seen so many committees of inquiry that have produced reports whichmoulderin pigeon-holes.
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For instance, moulders require very strong boots, overalls and thing of that kind.
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Most of these men obtained employment as general or builder's labourers, but others secured work as miners, joiners, engineers, pattern makers, moulders and rubber spreaders.
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The moulders cannot keep up with the demand for rones, pipes, bends and specials.
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We are short of men for capstan and automatic machines, skilled instrument makers, assemblers and moulders.
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It is an unhappy fact that most reports commissioned by governments, whatever their political complexions, gather dust until theymoulderand are completely forgotten.
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They are trapped in these crumbling, mouldering tenements.
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The nets on which they spent money which the could ill afford stillmoulderaway in sheds, useless and almost valueless.
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It is to draw attention not to the major masters of these two galleries but to the large number of pictures mouldering in their cellars.
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