Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received the chaff in the spirit in which it was given them, as gentlemen. They returned to Princeton, a college in New Jersey, and spread the news. It might have had; indeed was having its effect in Jonathan Edwards's brief home when the CRIMSON emitted an incendiary editorial which has caused confusion...
...following kernels of fact are winnowed from the chaff of rumor about Cabinet changes: ¶ Secretary of Labor James J. Davis expects to retire early in 1925. This news was promulgated by the President himself, who added that he hoped Mr. Davis would change his mind...
...give a minority more power to prevent accomplishments by the majority, even if the majority were a clear majority, as the present Republican majority is not. The present rules restrict the power of the House to "control itself," but they also enable it to sort the wheat from the chaff and accomplish results...
Agitation for reform in college sports contains both wheat and chaff--and a considerable amount of each. Too much publicity is one charge. Football could do with less space; the other sports are better adjusted to the amount of interest in them. Football, and, to a lesser degree, other sports have been overreaching themselves along the line of intersectional contests. Here is an immediate source of needless expense and overexploitation. In the matter of dual contests, at an rate, there is plenty of competition, all that is needed for interest and health, in each college's own section without going...
...welcome the opposition of the National Security League; only under opposition can the chaff be separated from the wheat. However, I think that most of the members of the Liberal League will agree that the National Security League misunderstands our purpose. The Security League seems to be operating under the ridiculous idea that college students are a bunch of infants who "swallow" everything they are told without the slightest thought on their part, while, of course nothing could be further from the truth. When the National Security League becomes so hard pressed for arguments for its cause that it becomes...