Word: grind
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...consider this: it generally takes about three years to make a really good oarsman; to grind "form" into, his system so thoroughly that he will hold it under pressure of extreme exhaustion. How hard then to expect eight men to re-learn rowing in a year so thoroughly that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing...
...Republicans and the Democratic National Committeemen, pure and orthodox, are not the only politicians with an axe to grind on lumps of sugar. Senator Capper of Kansas saw an opportunity of capturing credit for the farm bloc. "Unless the sugar raiders are punished, Congress will be compelled by the farm and progressive blocs to take over...
After its return to Cambridge at the end of the Easter recess, the team will begin the real grind of the schedule. Before the first game of the series with Princeton, the University will face, among others, three of the strongest teams of the East in Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and Lafayette...
...popular demand has given rise to a whole colony of "Grub Street" authors, who grind out back work day by day to satisfy their readers. The hopeful author says: "If I can write 5,000 words a day, at $2.00 a thousand, I will earn enough to keep me alive till something better turns...
...send my son there? If the latter be answered for a "Key" and some more "book learning", then no one need worry; both are still to be found for the seeking. But true scholars seem to be born not made; and a true scholar and a true grind, wholly different characters by the bye, are both usually impervious to anything but their books. The fault is surely not with them...