Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college in a tutorial group, the college would be providing its members with the equivalent of Social Insurance policies. There is at least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
Anyone with common sense and no axe to grind with gangland knows that a law such as that which will make it illegal for the honest citizen to own or have in his possession a pistol or revolver is nothing but a tool in the hands of the gangs...
...Democrats both knew, the prime movers for any legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless...
...fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of a long plebe year just past; to the first classman it means chevrons and the privileges which only a first classman may enjoy; to everybody summer camp is a period of welcome relief and relaxation after a long and exacting academic grind. West Point life during the pleasant summer months more than lives up to the hopes entertained...
...this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month's grind...