Word: chaff
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...driven out to inspect barn, hog lot. corn crib, silo, tractor, threshing machine. "Mighty fine! Mighty fine!" the Governor repeated. "You know. I've lived on a farm for 50 years." Mrs. Roosevelt gamely climbed barbed-wire fences. At the thresher the entire party was deluged with chaff. Before Governor Roosevelt started back to Omaha. Farmer Sumnick. his words edged with a German accent, made this carefully stage-managed speech, to his guest...
News candidates will spend the first week in becoming acquainted with various University sources, and with "newspaper style." Shortly after, when the "Scoop book" is opened, they will be given greater opportunities for displaying initiative and ability in gleaning items of interest from among the chaff of commonplace material. Ability to wield a pen with some fluency is essential, but previous journalistic experience is not necessary...
...Mukden, tight-lipped General Shigeru Honjo insisted his troops were moving out "to clear the country of bandits," but added that Chinese evacuation of Chinchow "is now absolutely imperative." Seemingly he thought that Chinchow might be taken without bloodshed, the Chinese soldiers merely scattering like chaff. Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas...
...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...