Word: cull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint this pattern, to cull and condense and throw into his medium the essence of the age in which he lives is the high purpose of the dramatist. Some dramatists limit their scope to the portrayal of but one shadow, some become hopelessly embroiled in combinations too great for their artistry, but once in a great while a dramatist avoids the overemphasis of one hue to the exclusion of all others and sometimes he avoids the dilemma of a canvass splattered with all hues. When he has done this he has created a clay in which the pertinent colors...
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
...issue of Harper's reports in "The Future of Higher Education," by President James Bryant Conant, Harvard College has adopted a new scholarship device, occasioned by its recognition of the "Jeffersonian" element in American education. That great statesman proposed "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue" towards an "intellectual aristocracy" serving the Republic. This, as President Conant rightly contends, was democratic to the point of being revolutionary...
...speech opened and closed on the vein of the Jeffersonian ideal, "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue...
Last week some 190,000 Cleveland voters trooped to the polls in a non-partisan primary to cull surplus candidates, leaving the two high men to choose from as Mayor of U. S. City No. 6. While a Mayor will not be elected until next month, observers knew the primary would hint whether Cleveland was ready to switch from Republican to Democrat...