Word: cull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krash, editor, did not deny that Harvard specifically called the tract a "golden mean," hardly a revolution, and that the Report pointedly disclaims originality, attempting to cull the best from both extremes of current controversy: "Without denying the partial value of any . . . views we believe rather that the main task of education is to interpret at all stages both the general and the particular; both the common sphere of truth and the specific avenues of growth and change...
...mile handicap course, the wartime Varsity run, was used only once a year in peacetime, to cull the best distance material from the University in a trial handicap meet run at the beginning of the cross country season...
Franklin Roosevelt, fighting a rear-guard action against inflation, last week ordered his aides to think up some new tactics. His price lieutenants jumped in with the usual set of one-page memos of their ideas, for him to cull and con. Soon, perhaps in the first fireside chat since February, the plans will be unfolded. The usual "informed sources" said that the tentative program, subject to change without notice, will include...
...Apple syrup (to supplement corn and maple syrups), made by concentrating the juice of fallen and cull apples to honey-thickness, was announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Laboratory at Philadelphia. But its first wide use is industrial: to replace war-scarce glycerin for keeping tobacco moist...
From 150 factories in the Detroit area, 1,028 foremen and supervisors went to a new kind of accident-prevention school last week. Its theory: some men are more prone to industrial accidents than others, and the way to prevent plant accidents is to cull these...