Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grind. The big success came because a hardy few managed to surmount the follies of the planners. The first settlers-drawn principally from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin-were granted 40 acres apiece, plus 30-year loans (at 3%). The Government had promised concrete foundations and basements for cabins, but foundation timbers were laid in the mud. Families received a grindstone, and 20 sacks of coffee beans were sent in, but axes were scarce, and there were no coffee-grinders...
...academically motivated students, the processes whereby Harvard selects her undergraduates will in time and by necessity come under closer and more critical scrutiny. Already it is clear that an obvious hypocrisy is perpetrated by the Admissions Office's enduring attachment to the man of "character" as opposed to the grind. Too often the men of "character" turn out to be merely pleasant fellows who are intellectually alone at Harvard...
...Harvard is to commit herself to an "Honors for all" program, in all fairness to the undergraduates she has the obligation to accept only those most likely to benefit from Honors work. It is a hard choice to make between the athlete and the grind, but this choice is the test of the University's seriousness of intent relative to upgrading Harvard education...
...gave him what he lacked. Infielder Eddie Miksis loaned him a glove, and Coach Ray Blades bought him a book called How to Play Baseball. Banks has still never learned how to play shortstop in the manner of Honus Wagner or Marty Marion. Tired by the grind of playing day after day (he has started every game this year), Banks has trouble getting the right jump on the ball, sometimes boots the play that sets up a rally. But, better than any other shortstop in history, Ernie Banks can right the score all by himself With one vicious slash...
...records two vivid and poignant modern samples of ravaged Roman: General Stilwell's World War II motto, "Illegitimati non carborundum [Don't let the bastards grind you down],' and Adlai Stevenson's classic cry of anguish, "Via oviciptum dura est [The way of the egghead is hard...