Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exceeding Small is the way in which the mills of God grind, as stated by Friedrich Von Logau in a much misquoted German poem.* In this play, the first offering of the Actors' Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window...
...Though the mills of God grind slowly...
...they grind exceeding small...
...keep intelligent men and women well informed-that is the only axe TIME has to grind."-From the original announcement of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...clock, standard time, on Friday afternoon, the two shells will lead away from the starting flag opposite Red Top for the four mile grind which will finish at the railroad bridge just outside of Kew London. At 9.30 o'clock, standard time, that morning, the two Freshman eights will row upstream over the middle two miles of the four mile course, starting from the flag a mile below the submarine base and finishing a mile above the base. Half an hour after the first year race the Crimson and Blue Javee shells will fight it out over the same course...