Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...
OKEH produces two piano solos. RUBE BLOOM'S "That Futuristic Rag" and "Serenata", and Organ Grinder Blues" and Wildflower...
...unlike Socrates, Dr. Meiklejohn prefers to be a philosopher before a small group of strained young faces, than before a half a thousand listless, far-away faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...
Experience of the workaday kind that might, like the coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals...
...nameless organ-grinder with his pony-cart; Dan the newsman; Nappy, most venerable of taxi-drivers; these are proof enough that the genus still lives and flourishes. Smith Halls knows the melodious shout "Co - -al!"; the whole college has at least heard of Adolphe and Bob Lampoon; the whole college greets and is greeted...