Word: cull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber tires, whole refrigerators, baby carriages and bicycles. Some of the items, baby carriages for example, had only two ounces of aluminum in 50 pounds of bulk. The smelters screamed because they had to pay freight on stuff they could not use; in addition had to pay men to cull the aluminum, a job usually done by the junk man. Worse still, the smelters began to run out of storage space. In relation to its bulk, some of the scrap yielded only one-third the expected aluminum...
...crawfish." Yet he has doubled the size of Harvard's Sociology Department, attracted a brilliant group of graduate students, and has probably written as many books in his field as any man in history. Although he scorns the "sensational, vulgar, misleading, and distorting press," he manages to cull yearly as much publicity as the average Hollywood starlet...
Prospect Street in Princeton is a shady avenue lined with 16 impressive clubs where upperclassmen live and move and have their meals. For 62 years now Tigertown has annually indulged in the pageantry of Bicker Week, when the clubs cull over the palpitating Sophomores for new blood-a stately procedure which the Dally Princetonian irreverently calls buffalo and twenty-three skidoo. From how on, the trustees have rules, every academically eligible Sophomore must be allowed to become a member of a club if he so wishes...
...chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...