Word: prune
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...Maid Raisin Growers Association California Fruit Growers' Exchange California Prune and Apricot Growers Portland Cement Association Dairymen's League Cooperative Association Florida Citrus Exchange...
...aptly expresses it, a spirit of inquisitiveness revived. His plan to raise the requirements for an A.B. degree to four Bs in a total of sixteen courses that a man must pass, with no more than two Ds, and an allowance for failure of one whole course, undoubtedly would prune effectually if not entirely remove the "deadwood". But it is very doubtful whether the mental growth of the remainder would be permanently stimulated. Men would have to get better marks to stay in college, but that would not necessarily make of them better scholars in the true sense...
People can be classified under three heads, which will get rid of the objectionable "fascinating". There are "linnets" (this is highly complimentary and has a pleasanter sound than "fascinating" anyway); there are 'pones" (this combines all the contemptuousness of "drone" with the heavy odium of "prune"); and there are "grusks" (any man would curl up and wither if he were called a "grusk" out of a clear...
...scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because he could do this he was made to do it, though he regularly protested. But after years of protest and endurance he has--if we may be pardoned a not wholly academic...
There are some, undoubtedly, to whom honorary privileges should be given,--distinguished visitors, high officials, men whom the whole. University loves for their love to the University,--but to prune down the present wholesale discrimination in the distribution of tickets would mean no injustice to any one, but greater justice...