Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing compared to the blasting force of the government, especially when the seats of power are held by men like Minton and Hague and Black, men whose ideas of government point to a Nazi form of state. In the complexity of modern life it is hard to winnow the chaff from the whet, and it is an important function for Harvard to teach her sons the art of thinking for themselves...
...rumor has been circulated around Harvard that a popular English instructor who resigned about a year ago desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...
London's tall, unarmed, polite police are adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while...
...couple of hundred Freshmen answer the call for football candidates every year, but with genial Neil Stahley to separate the chaff from the wheat, no one who thinks he really knows how to play football need have any fear of being overlooked. Stahley was Freshman coach three years ago, the first year of Dick Harlow's regime. Last year he was taken to the Varsity with the ranking of Field Coach. That season he did a little of everything, in fact a whole lot of everything, including the scouting of the opposition. This year he will handle the Freshman again...
Looking back on her 49 feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never...