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Word: grinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writers who grind out the millions of words for insatiable TV took nervous note of some of the problems, in the current Authors League Bulletin. Sample findings of eight experts and TV pioneers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Rumblings | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Third prize of a standard radio-phonograph went to the Spee Club. Spee-men finished up the eight-week Philip Morris grind with a final spurt of 200 wrappers with game predictions to capture their $180 award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tycoon Club Call For Philip Morris Is New Televiser | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...fairly accurately a growing attitude in Harvard today. A man wants to learn something, but not too much; he wants to learn something, but not to hard; he wants to be the least gentlemanly of the gentleman C boys, but may the good Lord keep him from becoming a grind...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff -:- | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Undertaker Wins | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Yale's Branford College team had a tougher fight on its hands yesterday than it had expected, but managed to grind out a 13 to 0 win over Dudley's Commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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