Word: grist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germanic Museum, as the College has always known it, was founded in the good old tradition of those earliest museums of all, magpies nests, where anything was grist to the curator's, mill. But now, under the leadership of Dr. Kuhn, it has weighed its collection in the balance with the idea of exhibiting only what has educational value and leads to an appreciation of German art. Certain isolated plaster-casts have had to go because they were inadequate substitutes for the originals, while countless photographs have been relegated to steel files, where those who must can use them. There...
Each week brings its grist of Federal action under this statute. Fortnight ago it was the nut, bolt & rivet men whose trade association was dissolved by a U. S. court (TIME, March 30). Last week it was the sugar and steel industries upon which Attorney General Mitchell opened fire. The steelmakers, he charged, had for ten years conspired to fix the price of steel rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than...
...first to cross the line over a course which was very muddy and slippery, although the weather had cleared rather cold for the race. He was followed in succession by Arthur Foote '33. B. E. Estes '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, and the first Yale man to finish, Grist. Five more Harvard runners finished before Yale was able to continue scoring. Captain R. C. Aldrich '31, handicapped by a bad cold, was unable to place...
...mass of grist flowing daily through the New York Herald Tribune's copy desk, beginning next week (July 1), will be one telegraphed sheet immune from the copyreader's darting pencil. A chaste headline may be scribbled at its top, neat paragraph marks made, but nothing else. Rendering this piece of copy sacred will be the line: "By Calvin Coolidge...
...Teams may combine efforts in ridding a certain property of rats. Guns, clubs and traps are variously used in their destruction. The rats will be brought from cover in an organized drive and as many as can be killed are mowed down by competing huntsmen. Village dumps and old grist mills are favorite rat rendezvous...