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Word: grinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting from scratch will be O'Neill Playfair, Walker, White and Captain Woodard, while Roys and Webster will begin the grind a minute sooner. A nine and a half minute handicap will be granted seven other participants in the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Handicap | 11/9/1934 | See Source »

While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Evidence | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...anti-soliciting regulation in the past has been but laxly enforced. Mr. Hanford's proclamation shows that the authorities are fully alive to the present situation, but the mills of the gods grind slowly. The effective method of enforcement is by the refusal of the students themselves to patronize those who illegally call at their rooms, and to cease the practice of signing merely to rid themselves of an unwelcome and over-persistent guest. In this manner, and with the help of the authorities the rules will be upheld, and the question of competition decided, as is only right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPER-SOLICITUDE? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...been arranged for the visiting runners, who chose the Harvard track as the one they wished to compete on. Eight running events and four field events have been scheduled and the feature of the day will be an attempt for a world record by Becalli in the 1500-metre grind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLYMPIC CHAMPION TO RUN IN STADIUM MEET | 9/20/1934 | See Source »

...Book of Genesis." Later he is convinced that "The recovery isn't following the program; the program is following the recovery." Speaking in his own right, however, Author Kent is the fairest as well as the most deadly journalistic critic of the Administration. He has no ax to grind, never hits below the belt. He does not like government regulation; his heart is with the small taxpayer and the Maryland Free State. In short, he is a sound Jeffersonian of pre-Civil War vintage. Critics may point out that, however lovely in contemplation, true Jeffersonianism has not played a vital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Democrat | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

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