Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Code of the Wilderness. The old West may be changing, but it continues to find locations in which to grind out the ever-trustworthy story of the girl from the East, with her conventional prejudices, brought into collision with the handsome man of the great open shirtfronts who knows only the law of the gun. It is easy to foresee that the girl, with her strait-laced notions about the dastardliness of shooting even in self-defense, is herself going to be faced with the problem of killing a man, before her brain clears. Then Alice Calhoun feels free...
...honest and upright citizen, with no police record and with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...
...first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind slow and exceeding fine in Czecho-Slovak, as they do in English...
...there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...
Coach Slattery has found the long grind indoors as irksome as have the players themselves, and he feels that he has been unable to get an adequate line on his material. For that reason no cut has yet been made, but the squad will be reduced to a working basis as soon as possible after outdoor work begins. With the Boston University game less than a fortnight away and the spring trip only three weeks off, it is essential that the players get on the diamond as soon as possible. Despite the prospect of sore arms and wet feet, therefore...