Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner...
...made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news was already jamming the wires...
Toward week's end, CBS, MBS and NBC got together, agreed to "edit" the news (i.e., avoid repetitive bulletins, pair up varying reports, sift announcements from foreign radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...
...Junior Varsity material than on last year's Yardling squad for his first eleven. During the short three weeks drilling before the first game, with Bates, on October 7, the more experienced upperclassmen are likely to keep the upper hand. As the season progresses, more and more Sophomores will sift into starting posts...
...three-man sprint combination will go to Providence: Charley Smith, Fred Ulin, and Phil Neal. With the dash situation in a state of flux, Coaches Neufeld and Mikkola are using every possible test to sift out and classify a large group of sprinters who are more or less unknown quantities...