Word: grind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timothy Dwight College took advantage of lapses in the Leverett defenses yesterday to grind out a 19-0 win over the Bunnies. The visitors led 12-0 at the half, and had no trouble from there...
...Fellowships to journalism. There is the list of study programs undertaken by men who are now editors and bureau chiefs and editorial writers--studies in American history, race relations, labor, international affairs, science, social relations. There is the theory that a man who can get away from the daily grind of the desk for a year to read, discuss, and explore his specialty should be a better-prepared reporter the next time he covers a strike or an election or a race riot. There is the fact that Niemans have risen in their field individually, to make use of their...
Last week it was fumbles. Yesterday it was intercepted passes, as six of them boomeranged on Ben McCabe's Jayvees, helping Boston University grind out a 19-6 victory at Soldiers Field...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...
Once upon a time, so the story of goes, a susceptible Eliot House Junior discovered a piece of silk in his meat leaf. "It's bad enough," he complained, "to feed us horse meet, but when they have to grind up the jockey as well...