brickmaking
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Origin of brickmaking
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Authorities are also trying to put a stop to high-polluting practices, such as brickmaking and the burning of rice straw, which is an old farming custom.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022
Mr. Hutton, despite his clear bias — he was from a prominent brickmaking family in Kingston, N.Y. — was not wrong.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
Members of brickmaking families said school closures — scheduled to last at least until December — have led to many children and adolescents working longer hours.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
The founder of the family, George Willis, was born early in the seventeenth century, and emigrated to New England about 1730, where he worked at his trade of brickmaking and building.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George
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