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...respected man on that power job. He could have been a construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence of a big-league outfielder. When a lineman with a hangover dropped off a tower and got killed, Slim stopped being a grunt. He was so proud...
Biography of greatest distinction was Hamilton Fish; The Inner History Of The Grunt Administration (TIME, Oct. 26), by Allan Nevins, who also won in 1933 for his study of Grover Cleveland...
...mind. In 1855 the first locks were completed and passed sailing ships carrying 1,447 tons of ore. Boomed by the Civil War, iron mining spread into new ranges in the West. In 1892 the greatest iron producer in the world, the Mesabi Range, was laid open to the grunt and whoosh of steam shovels...
...members of the Committee, however, were able to keep the proceedings on this elevated plane. Senator William H. Dieterich, onetime school- teacher and alderman of Rushville, Ill., the very cartoon of a porcine, "practical" politician, was inclined to grunt at witnesses. Originally noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...
...Reader Ridgway. -ED. Artful Armenian Sirs: While browsing among the pages of the May 18 issue of TIME ... to which I am a subscriber at the Compton (Calif.) junior college, I couldn't avoid running across the somewhat handsome faces of several robust blubbering behemoths of the grunt and groan industry appearing under the box-caption, Sport. The reason for my writing is Harry (Arteen) Ekizian, better known to fight fanatics as AH Baba, the Terrible Turk. Because...