Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Registration this year is something new and offers to the returning student, strategist and grind alike, a new and enticing problem. Long hours of waiting are to be replaced by the inviting prospect of a huge envelope containing all kinds of pamphlets, bills, notices, and schedules awaiting the registree after a mere few minutes spent in registering on Friday or Saturday...
...advice to Firpo is to be careful with Dempsey the first two or three rounds. Dempsey makes a lightning start, but I don't think he can go for a long grind...
...making of the American press, the best press in the world, resolve upon a full appraisal of our responsibilities and see that Conscience is maintained as editor-in-chief, and that Accomplishment writes the big ' beats ' which are ever giving the exhilarating thrill to the daily grind...
Joseph Conrad: " On arriving in America I told reporters: 'Writing is a frightful grind.' I then retired to the home of my host, Frank N. Doubleday, to rest for several days and recover from an attack of lumbago and gout...
...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...