Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black-uniformed security police tried vainly to sift out Communist fifth columnists from among Shanghai's millions. As thousands of refugees streamed in, thousands of others fled...
...Lamar can drill only two complete elevens in open field work, since slowness in dishing out Freshman physical exams is keeping the majority of his candidates out of scrimmages. Four days is hardly ample time to sift out the 111 spirited prospects who still remain...
...information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this...
...instructors, students, wives, servants, etc. he expects to live near the school. On the site of the present Del Monte golf-course clubhouse, he is planning a new Del Monte Hotel to house non-naval customers. As the Navy officers come and go, he will carefully sift them for permanent residential prospects...
Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49, outlined the scope of activities the NSO intends to encompass. The central body, she said, would sift workings of various member groups and channel them to campuses where effective ideas could be adopted. "Avenues opened to Radcliffe students by the NSO would be limitless," she affirmed...