Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renegades" does not head the bill at the University this half week. A Picture by the name of "Sunny", with one Marilyn Miller in the cast is put on as the feature production but it takes more than one miller to separate the chaff from the wheat...
...noon it struck. A howling grey wall of wind and water smashed full against the city. Trees bent over, slowly, grotesquely, then snapped from their roots, were flung aside like chaff. Above the roar of the wind came the rumble of falling masonry, and screams...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against temperature too hot or too cold. Of a clutch 95% hatched successfully. William D. Mann, U. S. assistant commercial attache at Cairo, found out about the ancient Egyptian brooders when he was seeking an Egyptian market for the latest type of U. S.-made incubators...
...rise of modern Science during this century has brought into the world at large the utensils of the laboratory and the application of research to the international questions of the time. Diplomatic chaff is superseded by "the scientific approach". The sleeveless engineer replaces the dilettante of the tea-table...