Word: grind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flynn has the titular responsibility of electing all possible Democrats-good, medium and terrible Democrats-to all possible offices in the land, in one of the toughest years in American history, at a time of considerable national dissatisfaction with the Administration's war effort. But the grind on Ed Flynn comes here: if the Democrats lose he will get all the lumps; if the Democrats win he will get no more reward than a character who brings back kittens to a man who left them to drown...
...Have No Axes to Grind. . . . " Bill...
...United States. The biggest stockpile of rubber we have is on the wheels of our automobiles. . . . It seems to me this situation is just as clear as crystal. We are going to do it; and the American people are going to accept.* I have no axes to grind, political or otherwise. We do not need talk, we need action...
...steaming, grind-haunted reading room of Boylston, which has handed out books for years to History and Government students, will close for the second session, causing the industrious to seek elsewhere in their thirst for knowledge...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...