Word: sift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewildered electorate he boomed: "The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. . . . Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better-a lot more cheerful than for many, many years...
...realize themselves and engage in any kind of rational action they must find for themselves certain values and a feeling tone that may sift the stimuli they encounter in some ordered way. Students should be aware that learning is a great deal more than the acquisition of details and that it is but a basis for fostering wisdom and understanding, a preparation for action that cannot be decisive or personally worthwhile without some conscious formulation of values...
...famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They put out from Los Angeles Harbor on July 4, stood...
...arms with which, to date, Senator Wagner has fought his battle are comparatively simple. His National Labor Board, founded last August during the soft coal strike, was supplemented by miniature offspring called Regional Labor Boards of which 18, with some 250 voluntary members, now exist. Their job is to sift labor complaints on the spot, turn back trifling ones to NRA Compliance officers, hold hearings on others, try by conciliation to prevent them from growing into strikes. When a case cannot be settled locally it is passed on to the National Board. But even that agency cannot force arbitration. When...
...York Essential Oil Co.. arrived in San Francisco. It was crushing. There was. it said, almost no market for ambergris. A fresh supply of 300 Ib. would glut the market, force the price down to from $2 to $5 an oz. But still crowds flocked to sift the sands of Bolinas and the Peppers, the Henrys, the Kenyons sat tight, held fast to their faith in miracles...