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Before an onslaught of wettish snow and raw wind, a little group of interested spectators, who had turned out to watch the Winthrop-Adams and Eliot-Leverett interhouse games, dwindled slowly as the teams made a fast start, but soon settled down into a steady grind, during which few scores were made...
...colleges seems to most a deep and occult mystery, but it is patent to all that the college student is alike an affliction to himself and to the world. Whether he be the gin-drinking, neurotically erotic, three-gallons-of-gas-and-a-dark-lane sort, or the sweet grind sedulously poring his neuter way through dusty tomes, or one of the infinite gradations between, he is a sorry confection to send out into the great world to take his place in the ruling class. He has no ideals worthy of the name, and of most subjects with which...
Universal Newsreel's Cameraman Joseph Gibson endeavored to cover both the rooftop snipers and the soldiers blazing away below. Pitching his cinecamera on a hotel roof he started to grind. Soon Cameraman Gibson was out of action with four bullets through his legs. Friends bandaged him but soldiers burst in and tore the bandages off. "Those shots never came from our guns!" they announced after inspecting the wounds. "It was the Communists...
...life of the stock player, though enjoyable, is strenuous; so strenuous, in fact, that if we didn't believe that we were contributing to what we consider the highest of arts, I doubt whether most of us would continue the grind. Our system of presenting a play for only a week, usually, and then giving another almost immediately, allows but four or five days to learn a completely new role sometimes as long as 30,000 words...
President Roosevelt's New Deal is not radical enough to suit U. S. radicals. To Communists the NRA appears as just one more capitalist plot to grind down the proletariat. To Socialists it seems like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they believe, offer workers "an exceptional opportunity to organize as a fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party...