(1) In this society saturated with diet tips and fitness blogs, with “bony boasters” showcasing their ribs on Instagram and bikini selfies on newsfeeds, our food neurosis seems explicit, on the table for all to see.
Stonemason
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(1) His mother was a school dinner lady, and his father a bricklayer and stonemason.
(2) Wanting to improve the view from his house, and provide some extra work for local stonemasons, Allen commissioned this almost Disneyish idea of a medieval ruin.
(3) Katta is now completing his training as a stonemason, supporting himself with the money he saved.
(4) Like any corner-cutting modern builder, the ancient stonemasons who built Stonehenge lavished the most work and best materials where they would be first seen –shining in the last light of the setting winter solstice sun, or at dawn on the longest day.
(5) His stonemason father, William, had met his future wife, Elizabeth, when she was head of the servant staff at the house of a doctor.
(6) A small group of stonemasons working with sandstone was exposed to levels of respirable quartz up to 130 times the workplace standard over a period of up to 6 years.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Stonemason Leon Hay works on the Mack library.
(8) None could even agree what kind of stone it was, with the Stone Federation of Great Britain telling the Mail it could be hewn from Portland limestone from Dorset, but another stonemason claiming it might be cheaper, Portuguese limestone.
(9) Harry Collett got so tired of being asked the same question that he had a stonemason make up a false headstone – and had it placed at a suitable location on his walk.
(10) The grand artists of the Edwardian age had moulded their figures and then paid stonemasons to do the dusty hard graft: Hepworth, Moore and the brilliant Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (killed in the first world war) did their own carving and learned the secrets of stone, the way it can break and open and release magic forms.
(11) Probably, as MPs go, he was OK." Peter Adams, 47, a stonemason and builder, was repaving his driveway when Huhne popped by last summer.
(12) Other jobs Drafted at 16, he was held as a POW; he trained as a sculptor and stonemason and has also worked as a jazz musician and political speechwriter for the mayor of Berlin.
(13) Some of the occupations and industries found to have elevated cancer risks and that are consistent with previous studies include: brickmasons and stonemasons (stomach); metal workers (pancreas, lung); photoengravers and lithographers (pancreas); butchers (lung); locomotive operators and truck drivers (lung); farmers (prostate, brain, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma); mechanics and repairers, especially auto mechanics (prostate); physicians (brain); glass products manufacturing workers (brain); and communications industry (brain) and chemical plant workers (non-Hodgkin's lymphomas).
(14) The stonemasons understood the hazards of granite stone dust, but an unexpected and common finding was an unacceptably high exposure to marble dust.
(15) (A Washington joke at the time was that the reason Johnson spoke so slowly was that he was dictating to a stonemason for his words to be set in stone.)