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...Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals, businessmen (especially those engaged in foreign trade), teachers of English, etc. To decipher and cull these lists, remove duplications, get the correct addresses and salutations, we hired five French girls who knew their France...
...course-as it is the job of every editor of TIME-to cull the significant developments in his field each week and communicate them to you in vivid, understandable English. That is probably harder to do in Science than in any other department of TIME...
...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...