(1) A questionnaire study was conducted in the Mushandike small scale irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe to investigate the following: 1) to establish whether field latrines are used or not; 2) to find out why people visit natural water bodies for bathing and laundry instead of using water from boreholes for these purposes; 3) to assess people's knowledge on the transmission and control of schistosomiasis.
(2) Among 133 chemical laundries workers and 107 persons from a control group internal medical examinations together with electrocardiography record and laboratory investigation were performed.
(3) Laundry workers have traditionally been offered little input into the ergonomic and health and safety aspects of their jobs.
(4) It is most likely that the skin changes noted in connection with the use of bioactive laundry detergents are due not to the PE content of these detergents, but to other factors.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
(6) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
(7) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
(8) On the morning of Sunday 7 January 2007, one of the contractors working on decommissioning the Sizewell A nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast was in the laundry room when he noticed cooling water leaking on to the floor from the pond that holds the reactor's highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.
(9) Patients received more help with activities like shopping, laundry and housework than personal activities such as bathing, using the toilet and dressing.
(10) Laundry and clothing hung from lines above the cots.
(11) Similarly, no association was found between the use of toilet soaps or laundry detergents in early infancy and development of AD.
(12) This caused greater proportion of older cases, among which women (mothers) had probably been more exposed to infections than men (nursing ill household members, laundry handling, etc).
(13) They found they were coming home from studying, doing homework on their own and realising there was no foster mum or dad to cook for them or do their washing or laundry and they were suddenly on their own.
(14) Hairdressing, catering, retail, laundry and tailoring had some of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers.
(15) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
(16) The £4,250 can be on a room-only basis or it can include payments for meals, cleaning and laundry.
(17) Budgee is the ultimate little pack mule that’ll follow you around by tracking your Bluetooth phone and carry all your shopping, laundry or gear.
(18) The ability of NTA to chelate metal ions such as Mg++ and Ca++ into water soluble complexes makes NTA useful as an additive to boiler water, as a builder in laundry detergents, and as a stabilizer in textile, paper, and pulp processing.
(19) A cohort of laundry and dry-cleaning workers was identified from the Danish Occupational Cancer Register for the study of cancer incidence of persons exposed to tetrachloroethylene.
(20) I worked in a laundry, a warehouse and as a taxi driver – simply to survive.
Washboard
Definition:
(n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
(n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
(n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) His target customer: Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
(2) Venturing west, you might have stumbled across Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, where New Orleans's dapper Luke Winslow-King and the washboard-wielding Esther Rose got the crawfish-munching masses jitterbugging to their vintage sweaty Southern stomp.
(3) My first gig in school was a skiffle group – a couple of guitars, washboard, tea-chest bass – but I'd already been doing gigs before that, youth club gigs.