Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blenheim, Britain's sift in 1704 to the great first Duke, the Marlboroughs pay annual rent to George V of a banner emblazoned with three "flower-de-luces" (fleur...
...Slipher let the strange, faint light sift through spectroscopes. After 100-hr. exposures he caught blue and violet bands in his spectrographs. Other exposures showed red light in "surprising strength." More recent observations demonstrate that zodiacal light contains the entire spectrum from red to violet. The assumption is that "the strange light originates at some distance above the Earth's surface, in a layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection...
...sift charges of Negro peonage on Federal levee construction on the lower Mississippi President Hoover last week appointed a board of inquiry. Three members were Negroes: Tuskegee's Robert Russa Moton, Washington's Judge James A. Cobb and the Urban League's Eugene Kinckle Jones. The fourth member was Lieut.-Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...since becoming Sheriff of New York County two years ago, had withheld $15,000 in interest on litigant funds left in his trust, had surrounded himself with incompetents and, most important of all, was unable to account for a personal fortune of $357,000. Governor Roosevelt was trying to sift these matters and to decide whether he should remove Sheriff Farley from office. High above the heads of the Tammany deathwatch, whose votes might mean the Governor's nomination and election to the Presidency this summer and next autumn, hung a portrait of Grover Cleveland, a New York Governor...
...made for the advantages of such a change, but the argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...