Word: sift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands of "technikums"-vocational schools...
...without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep telling you, 'Up, boy, up.' " See MEDICINE, Sleepless in Gotham...
...party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery and blowing oxygen." Older teen-agers more molten-steel ladles, refine ore and build the brick linings of furnaces. The "young pioneers" work...
...Recipe: Pare and core two baking apples and slice into eight wedges each. Sift 1½ cups of flour with 1 tsp. salt, cut in ½ cup shortening. Moisten with 4 or 5 tbs. of cold water. Roll out into 16-in. by 10-in. rectangle and cut into 16 10-in. by 1-in. strips. Wrap one strip around each apple slice. Arrange, without touching sides, in 13-in. by 9-in. by 2-in. baking pan. Brush with ⅓ cup melted butter; sprinkle with ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of water over...
...told, believed to have been cast in the 13th or 14th century, are among Africa's finest. They add important new evidence of an ancient Negro culture of amazing sophistication. Last week while the pieces were on their way to England for showings, experts continued to dig and sift the soil at Ife in search of more clues to the past...