Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unaware of impending triumph in the long grind to be first to hand in his study card, Dennis was hurried by his adviser early Saturday morning, and arrived in what could hardly be described as a photo finish. Staff members in University C reported that he was "pleasantly surprised...
...days, this competition was regarded as a worthwhile grind that men had to fight in, but in which they considered the punishment worth what they got out of it. Due to the increased amount of time that a student has to put on his work, however, the work has been cut down a great deal, and instead of causing men's mark's to fall, has in many cases aided with their work as it provided a regulating influence without which they would have been lost in the first few months of college...
...Passing through Butte, Mont. on her way home to Seattle from Brother John's wedding, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger said: "I don't think father will run for another term. It's a wearisome grind, campaigning...
Having blazed a brilliant path of victory to its training quarters at Red Top, an undefeated Crimson eight is smoothing out rough edges for the final four-mile grind against Yale. When it annexed the mythical sprint championship of the East after beating Navy, no other crew in Harvard's racing history had realized its potentialities as well as Captain Spike Chace's Varsity eight under the patient and critical eye of Coach Tom Bolles...
While to the Columbians the race was the season's windup, except for a trial jaunt at Poughkeepsie, the Harvard swingers were rounding into form for the four-mile grind against Yale. The Lions had nothing to lose and kept slugging away at a 36 count as against the Crimson's faultless...