gradgrind

gradgrind
I don't know what it means. I found it in an article written by Peter Lubin and published 9 October 2000 in the Providence Journal. The name of the article was If America had been discovered for Genoa.

Gradgrinds may dismiss all this as idle and unneccessary speculation.


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