Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympic games, the Grand National, the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...
...trying to polish myself up again by sticking my nose against the grind stone here," said 36 year old Julius F. Stone, Jr., first-year student in the Law School and former relief administrator in an interview yesterday afternoon...
Like all other Law Students, Stone who has a wife and little girl does not see how he can possibly answer the questions on the final examinations. He finds himself at a disadvantage "returning to the grind after being away from it for such a long time and getting into sloppy habits of thinking...
This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...
Freshmen in Briggs and Cabot have complained that since there were no rope fire escapes in those dormitories, they should be excused from the gruelling grind. Their objection was overridden by the fact that they might sometime visit a building where rope was the only means of escape...