Word: mill
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...college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer. In 1926, his Populist fervor persuaded Alabamians to elect him to the U.S. Senate. Aware of his spotty schooling, he spent his first term buried in the Library of Congress reading Aquinas, Aristotle, Herodotus, Locke, Marx, Mill, Montesquieu, Plutarch, Tacitus, Spinoza, Thucydides, Shakespeare, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and all of Thomas Jefferson...
Grave & Reformed. Adams' two older brothers were black sheep. John Adams II was kicked out of Harvard for joining in a riot, and the family allowed him to settle down as the manager of a flour mill in Washington. George became an alcoholic, had an illegitimate child by a servant girl, and finally committed suicide. Charles Francis, who would have preferred to be a scholar, felt obligated to carry on the family tradition of public service. He cut down on the drinking bouts, made an effort to appear "grave, sober, formal, precise and reserved," and began his new career...
When the basement area became available, WHRB dropped its tentative plans to build new studios over the Master's garage at the corner of Mill and Plympton streets. The station expects to renovate the basement for approximately $50,000, an amount less than one third the cost of identical facilities at the previously proposed site...
...delivery of key items and in the activation of plants that were formerly headed for the scrap heap. Aluminum capacity is so tight that Kaiser Aluminum plans to reopen a smelter in Tacoma that it shut down six years ago. U.S. Steel has just reopened a 47-year-old mill in Gary, Ind., to cope with the demand for heavy plate. A fifth of the nation's basic steel capacity is still idle, but bottlenecks are developing in the rolling mills that form finished steel for autos...
Talent that might have provided leadership elsewhere may just become grist in the academic mill. Harvard may be encapsulating itself in an academic cocoon, deserting its country and--perhaps less cataclysmically--deserting its alumni...