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Word: culled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Dove That Goes Boom | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...reckoning came. John Hartford sat and squirmed in a Washington court while Bureau of Standards investigators recited how they had been short-weighed on 50 chickens bought at A & P stores. John stormed back to the Graybar Building determined to cull out all such flipmagilding. He sat down and personally signed letters to 40,000 men & women in his employ warning them, on penalty of discharge, that every A & P customer "must get 16 ounces to every pound." Moreover, John set up a big board at headquarters to mark every supermarket's quarterly showing, raised hob whenever one turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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