Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they learn, 3) fewer teachers are needed...
Fred Martin started out as a hand-organ grinder in a San Francisco roller-skating rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...
...good citizens when seeking appointment. To appoint Russell is to put a premium on moral eccentricity rather than scholarship. There are many able men, fully as able as Russell and much less biased, who could give these lectures. To appoint Russell under these conditions is to hire an ax-grinder and lose an educator. Howard L. Beer...
...earthy French film Harvest. Detached from the cinema, Honegger's spare, simply scored melodies still needed the titles he gave them: Panturle (the peasant of the picture, who finds strength in the love of a woman from the city); Spring in the Hills; Gedemus the Knife Grinder (whom the woman deserts for Panturle); Harvest...