Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...
...impossible to sift the thousands of candidates for state offices with the purpose of pointing out those who should be elected and those who should be defeated. It would be equally impossible to discuss the candidates for Congress in every district in the nation if local issues alone were involved in each one's election or defeat. But this is not the case...
...make the workers contributing partners in an enterprise. There are two parts to the plan. The first is a formual for rewarding the workers by bonus for any increases in productivity due to their efforts or suggestions. The second part is a system of labor-management committees to sift these suggestions, and put the valuable ones into effect...
...Johnston, the authors of this measure, are not going to do the actual listing of the "Communist" organizations themselves. For this purpose, the bill provides a three-man "Subversive Activities Control Board," under the Attorney General. These three men, drawing $12,500 a year each, will do nothing but sift all sorts of groups to pick out these which are "Communist political organizations," and "Communist front organizations." In addition to the working definition above, this Committee will have a list of eight criteria, all beginning with the phrase, "the extent to which," and none specifying what "extent...
...reader's assimilation 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 time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers...