Word: funnelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American education is like a giant funnel--we have many colleges, and many students, but 50 per cent of our college students drop out before they are graduated...
...commentators had also profited from their experiences at the Republican Convention. They were a lot less talkative and a lot more informative,* particularly the bird-dogging floor reporters with walkie-talkies, who frequently were able to funnel the news out before the delegates themselves were informed. The convention standout: ABC's tenacious Martin Agronsky, who developed a knack for catching delegates eager to report the results of their most recent caucus...
Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...
...Government has now begun to listen to the truckers' plea for materials with a more sympathetic ear, has started to funnel more scarce materials away from light trucks to heavy truck & trailer makers. (By diverting rubber from civilian tires, rubbermen increased truck-tire output last month to 360,000 from 317,000 in March...
...states, is shaped like an inverted funnel, and is absolutely cold. Heat and light occur only when the sun's rays strike the atmosphere. Maciver admits that he was hesitant about discarding long established scientific theories. He believes he knows, however, why so many scientists before him went astray...