Word: grain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ruminated disconsolately when suddenly he bit on a grain that smacked like truth. He reclined and closed his eyes: then he knew. Examinations served neither students nor faculty but the College. Like the machine, the College had once been an instrument to an end and was now the end itself. It had outgrown its maker and enslaved him. Those whom It was to serve, now served It. The College was an inscrutable power, an emancipated will, beyond human control. It exerted, Its might through Its policemen, the examinations...
...millions of copies of TIME, displayed prominently all over our country and other countries. As "clear, curt, concise" and cold as TIME is in giving the news, which I have read for many years from cover to cover, I cannot help but feel that you should display some grain of sympathy for the thousands of humans whose deaths are the direct results of the man you term Man of the Year...
...were sure that stocks and bonds of companies are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange; the rest answered "no" or were not sure; 33.6% knew it traded in government bonds, 24.2% thought grain, 8.7% thought that the stock bought and sold on the Exchange is livestock...
...Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway play...
Last week winter stepped in to help the Allied blockade in the Balkans: the Danube froze and heavy snow slowed rail transport, stalling Germany's grain and oil imports from Rumania...