Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geepers, look at that grind! He's been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times...
...Then they would pick me up'and stand me on my feet, but I was no sooner on my feet than they would knock me down again. This went on about five times. They let me lie there for a while. . . . Every once in a while someone would grind his heel into me. They pulled my legs apart and kicked me in the scrotum...
...smooth stroking Varsity is as yet undefeated and apparently Harvard is the only obstacle between it, and an undefeated sprint season. The Adams Cup Race on May 29th will therefore be the big race for the Blue and Gold, and the Middles are beginning a three weeks' training grind in anticipation of that race...
...their "four long years". The Guide is an expression of undergraduate opinion which is gathered at oral hearings and by questionnaires among the Freshmen, and its mistakes result not from editorial bias, but from the human fallibility of its writers. There is no attempt to soften criticism or to grind an editorial axe: that would hardly be fair either to the college or to the incoming Freshmen for whom the Guide is offered...
...pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely to the cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...