Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennis Courts, family style, over at Jarvis these days. The neat lines of nets, the umpire's high chair, and the solemn cavortings of short-haired racqueteers has changed to ten long, prefabricated "dwellings," black drums of kerosene, and the mystical contortions of two-year-olds in a sand-box. Spirited undergraduates wearing white wool sweater and mouse-colored sneakers, and frothing for a furious afternoon of net-play, are apt to find nothing more athletic at Jarvis than a slow set of Bean-Bag with a law student's heir. And not only are there law students' heirs. There...
sieve That stores the sand and lets the gold
...scales of the students who work for them. Despite the decentralized nature of the hiring system all the employers of student workers appear united on one principle-there is no need for wage increase. When confronted with the economic facts of life they quickly bury their heads in the sand and sputter incomprehensibly. The facts indeed speak for themselves. Student workers deserve a raise as much as do other University employees...
...Said London's Economist: "If the Senate has proved anything quite decisively, it is that Congress cannot be relied upon to pursue with any consistency the policy of moderation and liberality without which the whole structure of the loan, Bretton Woods and nondiscriminatory trade policy is built on sand...
...Tracked by radar and captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...