Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth of February these essay answers must be pondered, the wheat sifted from the chaff, and the grades deposited at University Hall. This schedule means a furious 72 hours for instructors and graders in the "Monday...at 9" courses. And it may mean that bluebooks will of necessity receive a little less care and solicitude than they deserve and normally receive...
...warmed with hot air for hours before flight. Operation Haylift flew over rugged mountains which pilots nicknamed "Lower Slobbovia." To get feed close to the animals, the planes flew low (from 150 to 200 ft.) while airmen, muffled and goggled, toiled in a storm of freezing wind and flying chaff to kick bales out of open doors...
...other words, Paris is primarily a job for a first-rate reporter and political analyst, and Laguerre feels that his staff has had considerable success in winnowing the real news from the political chaff that whirls through the French capital each week. A case in point was the disclosure (in TIME'S June 3, 1946 cover story on French Communist Party Boss Maurice Thorez) of the now accepted fact that there can be a split between the different Communist parties of the world over the issue of nationalism...
...unbiased observer knows that the Derby merely separates the wheat from the chaff. The wheat is sent to Baltimore, where two weeks later America's greatest race, the Preakness...
Authors Victoria and Robert Case (brother & sister) are far from agreeing with Carol Kennicott that Chautauqua was "nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm." We Called It Culture recalls how cheap and tedious Chautauqua could be at its worst. It also insists that at its best it brought to provincial society a leaven of excitement, entertainment and intellectual stimulus...