Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cincinnati's Dr. Hermann, 33, studied medicine in St. Louis, interned in Cleveland. His chief tools are a kind of meat grinder for shredding pieces of sound skin, a modified salt shaker for scattering the skin seeds on the wound which needs grafting...
Barnard College's Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 54, had an organ grinder haled into court when he refused to leave her window. Said he, pleading that he thought she was a student, "Ah, but the beautiful lady looked so young. . . ." Sentence was suspended...
John E. Mellish, 46, is a person of importance to U. S. astronomy. He is a grinder of telescope lenses, which he, with infinite pains and patience, can polish to within one one-millionth of an inch of perfection. Last week, and every weekday for the past nine months-hour after hour-he has worked under the surveillance of the Kane County, Ill. sheriff...
Jessie Wood chose Lens-Grinder Mellish from among scores of applicants. She subsequently bore eleven children, nine living. Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and Mrs. Frost were Mrs. Mellish's first accoucheurs when her time came at the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
Last year Mrs. Mellish caught her husband with a 15-year-old girl in his lens-grinding shop. Mrs Mellish had him arrested. Last week Professor Frost was trying to get him free. But Lens-Grinder Mellish objected. Liberty and libido were inconsequential to him. In jail or outside he wanted to go on grinding lenses. "I transgressed Society's laws," said he. "I must do penance...