Word: grind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Mt. Wilson's venerable George Ellery Hale, famed solar authority. The first 200-in. mirror was marred during the casting when cores broke loose from the floor of the mold and floated to the top of the molten glass (TIME, April 2, 1934). Rather than grind out the huge pockmarks in the mirror's back, the Corning physicists decided to cast a new disk.* Second time the cores stayed in place...
...sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have to make it up with the formidable cameras staring then down. The result is that one intuitively feels confident of having done slightly better...
Dave Emerson handed in the best showing in the 14-mile cross country grind by taking twenty-seventh place. Shaw broke his skis and was unable to finish, while another member of the team lost his way in the wilds and did not get in until after dark...
...chance in the 3/4-mile race, but the competition here will also be greater with almost the whole cross country squad entered. Henry O. Marcy '38, Charles C. Worth '37, William H. Wright '38, and Brayton are all entered. Marcy and Worth have also gone into the 1 1/2 mile grind...
...outset of my remarks," he began, "let me make one thing perfectly clear. I am not a candidate for any nomination by any party, at any time. . . . Further than that, I have no ax to grind. There is nothing personal in this whole performance insofar as I am concerned. ... I am in possession of supreme happiness and comfort. . . . "When I see danger, I say danger. . . . What are these dangers that I see? The first is the arraignment of class against class. ... Of course in my time I met some good and bad industrialists. . . . But I also met some good...