Word: extractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer is likely to view the future with more misgiving than the merchant and retailer...
Unfortunately this bold statement is slightly vitiated on its negative side by the fact that the usual method of probing, the written examination is to be employed. The preversion of this delicate instrument into an extractor of meticulous bits of unrelated information is a sad fact of experience to most of us. No doubt those who formulated the new rules mean to stress intelligence and to make the examination broad and general rather than textual. Let us hope...