Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the opening of spring football practice begins the daily gridiron grind which will climax in the Yale game next November...
...such grind as the old College Boards, the new tests measure two qualities: scholastic aptitude (skill in reading, problem-solving, etc.) and "general achievement" (a short-answer test of knowledge in certain fields). Advantages: both can be taken in a single day and they are easy to grade...
...June Week" was distinguished from normal ones only by the weather (frosty) and an extraordinary guard: midshipmen stood watch everywhere with pistols; enlisted men at the gates made even officers' wives identify themselves. But midshipmen, not to be done out of the brightest week of their tough Academy grind, entertained their "drags" as usual, had their customary hops, "tea fights," farewell ball...
Sponsored by the Outing Club, the struggle started on the shores of Brookline's old reservoir, and, after 10 1/2 miles of hills and dales, ended on the Wellesley campus near Alumnae Hall. Eighteen men managed to last out the grind, and the first four to pass the eyes of the judge, Miller Robb of the Cambridge Bicycle Club, won prizes...
...Lecturer Pierre van Paas sen girded up his loins with a goatskin, brushed wild honeybees from a matted beard, strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins and sound the trump of doom so mellifluously that...