Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...
...shot. S. H. Martin 1L., former Dartmouth half-miler and a member of the B. A. A. relay team which holds the world record for two miles, will take part in the 800-metre run, while Macaulay Smith 1L., Yale distance runner, is an entrant for the 5000-metre grind...
...time for the full distance grind was given out as 23 minutes and 13 seconds. The second University eight did not participate in the trial but followed the Watts crew in one of the coaching launches. Several speed boats from the Yale 'training' camp also trailed the time row in an effort to gauge the average racing pace of the Harvard eight...
...grind through the rock with drills. All day the air is filled with minute particles of stone, deadly dangerous dust is sucked into human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with...
...thinking back to the origins of bread & cake. The French wheat-man-a close friend of Herbert Hoover, and of Georges Clemenceau-is M. Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling thrust of advertising...