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Word: grinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rendezvous with Destiny | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Slightly reduced in numbers and looking train-weary, Company A got back into the grind last week and settled down to the task of breaking in a new set of instructors...

Author: By Bruce Westley, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 9/24/1943 | See Source »

Peter Poor, of New City, N. Y. and Adams House, whizzed through Memorial Hall in the sparkling time of 31 minutes' and 30 seconds Thursday morning to win the free subscription to the SERVICE NEWS offered to the first Freshman to complete the grind. Close on his hells were 200 other '47ers who finished between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Wins Free Subscription | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

Weapons mastered, the final seven weeks drives home how to use them. By doing and redoing under battle conditions, they learn how to attack armored cars and low-flying planes, dig foxholes that will not cave in when tanks grind over them, fight in gas attacks, neutralize mine fields. Three times each class attacks enemy villages with live ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - T.I.S. | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...promulgate prejudices, liberal or conservative. The magazine is one of news, not argument, and verges on the controversial only where it is necessary to point out what that news means. 'To keep men well-informed' -that, first and last, is the only axe this magazine has to grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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