Word: sift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's fogs, which once romantically shrouded the nocturnal prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
...underlying philosophy of conservatism, he said simply: "I'm not a philosopher. These are questions I haven't thought much about." He was not at home in complicated theorizing. He operated from a fixed base of accepted principles and law, used his analytical mind to sift out the facts. The Taft-Hartley Act made no effort to establish new principles of labor relations. Rather, it was a great improvisation, intended to register a shift of public sentiment against the one-sidedness of the Wagner Act. It was not the last word on the subject, and Taft admitted...
Last fall the International Press Institute published a report on getting the news out of Russia (TIME, Oct. 13). One method recommended was the use of a "Russian desk" to read, analyze and sift news reports from Moscow, and to add to them an extra dimension of understanding. Quoting a British expert on the Soviet Union, the I.P.I, report said: "The sort of news one gets out of Moscow . . . by itself gives no picture at all . . . To one [who is] accustomed to reading between the lines and who already has a good firsthand picture of Russia, the official news...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...
...were young and taking my degrees here, I would be tempted to use as the subject of a thesis, 'Cruelty in divorce cases in America.' I would search the archives of the courts, and by methods both psychoanalytical and sociological I would attempt to sift out the personalities from the documents. In this way one would obtain a very interesting picture of the American woman...