Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triangular grind that Jaakko Mikkola's cross country men have been pointing at ever since they first jogged out of Dillon Field House early this fall. True, there is a little matter to be settled with twenty-odd distance men from Dartmouth and New Hampshire today, and a race has to be run against a reputedly excellent outfit from Toledo on November 1 before Manager Gorham Brigham packs his squad off for the land of the Tiger. Still, important as these meets may seem on their eve, it is the Armistice Day finale that dominates the future...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
...candidates are held every Monday. Wednesday, and Friday evening at 7.30. New candidates are welcome to drop in at one of these meetings, any time during the year, to find out about the kind of work that interests them. There is no danger of getting in for a long grind of errand-running and desk-sitting that takes every spare moment. Each man sets his own pace and does work of his own choosing. Members of the board help all they...
Somehow I feel that I have been repaid for the four times I rewrote the book before submitting it to a publisher; I feel that the 14-day grind from 6 a. m. to midnight when I completely revised it was worth the effort...
Unlike most historians, Du Bois candidly admits that he has an ax to grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South...