Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with some sense, the idea being hundreds of years old. To hold that machine operators cannot be organized on the same basis is due to ignorance of the job itself. From the standpoint of organizing it is expedient and lucrative, but to say that a toolmaker or first-class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck is taking a pretty general viewpoint. This is one of the dangers of the industrial union as far as strikes are concerned...
...prestige and its acceptance in the swankiest Massachusetts Avenue homes sell advertisers in the Times. Mrs. Patterson intends to make the Times her own mouthpiece, dress it in new format, give it her best writers, many of them women, and her pet features. She is no political ax-grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward the Hearst policies. She is an old friend of Harold Ickes, entertains Joseph Kennedy and Harry Hopkins, recently had Mrs. Roosevelt splashing around in her swimming pool all afternoon...
Featured in the ebullient swingfest, which was furnished mostly by trumpets and clarinets, were an inspired drummer who performed on a wastebasket and a stick, and William G. Hewitt '38, who played the zither. The program included "Wintergreen", "Organ Grinder's Swing" and several Harvard songs, and ended with a triumphant snake-dance...
...knowledge of the industry tells me that the term "coffee grinder" refers to a station low in power and small in size, but so faf as I know, it has never had any colloquial meaning with reference to the character or reputation of the station...
Corn Products Refining, world's biggest corn grinder (Argo starches, Karo corn syrup, Mazola oil), reported a nine-month net of $8,339,192, compared to $5,373,070 for the first three quarters...