Word: grist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norton Regional Planning chair. He gives the several centers of study in public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences. Gaus earries on his specific researches on civil service and the power-man conjunction within a frame of thinking that is almost a credo. The hall mark is distinguished service. But "politics" will win unless...
...Grist for Red Mill...
...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...
Last month Beirut gossip mills had new grist. The Amazer, they said, had asked for a U.S. visa. His destination: California, to attend a spiritualist convention...
...with the result that rate making has become a much more scientific and a much less time consuming process in the hands of regulatory commissions. Viewed in the light of the courts' past experience with complicated industrial matters, the currently pressing portal-to-portal pay suits appear to be grist for arbitrating bodies or labor-management conferences rather than material or judicial decision...