Word: cull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great number of you who buy books, TIME tries to offer a selective guide, rather than give "instruction," on what is best in contemporary reading. Few people have the time to read the 200-odd books reviewed in the section each year; fewer still have the opportunity to cull the lists of 10,000 or more books published in this country each year. TIME tries in its reviews to tell you enough about the better books to help you decide which ones you would most like to read...
...secondary-school enrollment would, of course, not be applicable here, because public opinion is too solidly entrenched in the belief that every child has the right and the capacity to finish high school. It would be a great step forward if some sort of competitive examination were given, to cull out the most troublesome and the most illiterate from the secondary schools, if for no other purpose than to provide our teachers with better working conditions . . . There would, of course, still remain the problem of what to do with the academic culls after they are relieved from competition...
...cultural trendspotters, the big attraction was the Whitney Museum's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting-a serious effort to cull the best 150 U.S. pictures of the year. If the Whitney is right, it was a great year for introspective tube-squeezing and brush-squiggling. Typical example of the nonobjective work that dominated the show: William Baziotes' Phantasm, with weird blues, greens and mauves melting across the canvas like sherbet on warm linoleum...
...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...
...reckoning came. John Hartford sat and squirmed in a Washington court while Bureau of Standards investigators recited how they had been short-weighed on 50 chickens bought at A & P stores. John stormed back to the Graybar Building determined to cull out all such flipmagilding. He sat down and personally signed letters to 40,000 men & women in his employ warning them, on penalty of discharge, that every A & P customer "must get 16 ounces to every pound." Moreover, John set up a big board at headquarters to mark every supermarket's quarterly showing, raised hob whenever one turned...