Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open letter to the Board of Overseers which serves as an editorial, the connection with the paper of the instructors in question might well be cleared up. The purpose of the letter is an entirely worthy one. The unfortunate inference, however, is that somebody has an axe to grind...
...University's race with Yale on Saturday, the season was brought to an end. Yale though boasting several veterans in her first boat did not display the power or endurance exhibited by the University, and was outdistanced in the two-mile grind by over two lengths...
...next week Widener Library will be more popular than the "movies" as the loafer and the grind sit side by side busily at work,--the latter to make that "A" a certainty, the former to fill his head with just enough knowledge to secure those two C--'s, and thus convince both faculty and family that he is a student in good standing...
...Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with it the price of flour, his loss is offset by a profit on the short sale, and vice versa. When "futures" at Winnipeg were forbidden recently, grain ceased to come in from the farms...
That was two years ago. It has taken our nation that long, through many more losses, and through hidden or open insult, to arouse its slumbering passion. "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine...