Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn refiners. Chief products are 600,000,000 Ib. of starch, 400,000,000 Ib. of sugar, 1,000,000,000 Ib. of syrup. There are also innumerable corn specialties and byproducts. Corn refining has been a well-established industry for more than half a century, yet the annual grind last year was only 50% larger than in 1906. "These figures offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods by industry," observed Vice President Morris Sayre of Corn Products Refining Co. "There are encouraging indications that the future will bring more rapid progress...
Along with the other signs of spring, it is pleasant to note the appearance of the annual Princeton poll signifying the fortunate few whom the Senior class names yearly as "most respected", "biggest grind", etc. The practice of bestowing such dubious titles upon a handful of the graduating class has become a tradition like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks...
...combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4°-5° of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published...
...important, French tourist trade have suffered woefully from devotion to gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably successful, might be forgotten as quickly as dollar devaluation was forgotten...
...completely without its constructive publications. In November appeared "The Harvard Grind" with its avowed purpose to help fellow grinds. Quoting a reader of the "Grind" just before a French 6 exam...