Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over and clarify in a fresh stream of impressions. The principal works are usually begun in the vac, then given considerable attention in a series of essays, then browsed over at odd times. Some months later they will again form the staple of vacation review preliminary to the final grind...
Steel- The high mortality among propaganda plays would seem to occur, not because the theatre is no whetstone on which to grind axes, but because when a playwright sets out to champion something he usually loses all his sense of humor and proportion, together with his head, in excoriating the Other Side. Having acquired well-deserved kudos for his first play, The Last Mile, John Wexley has now broken a lance against the boiler-plated sides of the steel industry. This he does by presenting the sad case of Joe Raldny (Paul Guilfoyle), a young resident of Ironton...
...well aware was 32-year-old Candi- date Ingalls that he has an uphill grind before him, that his chances of success are none too large. Said he frankly: "I know it will be a hard fight but I'll be in there to win." What will probably help him most is the engaging friendliness of his public manner. When he answers his telephone at the Navy Department, he says simply: "Hello?Dave Ingalls." His immediate superior booms out: "Hello! This is Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy, speaking...
...story of MI-2, which served as the intelligence office for the War, Navy, Justice, and State Departments during the war, and as the American Cryptographic Bureau hidden in New York after the war, written with an axe to grind. For the operations of the "American Black Chamber" were brought to a close in March, 1929 by Secretary Stimson, "the first diplomatist who, though well aware that all great powers have their Black Chambers, had the courage, or was it naivete?--to announce that diplomatic correspondence must be inviolate." The dedication page mentions "our skilful antagonists, the foreign cryptographers...
...sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship...