Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...