Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in utter bafflement, the Navy called off its search. A board of inquiry began to sift far-fetched theories and farther-fetched rumors. A peacetime mystery was as unfathomable as any the war had produced...
Many Canadians doubted that the committee could sift the mass of suggestions, agree on one and get it through the House of Commons. History backed them up: Parliament has debated a national flag off & on for 20 years...
...Provost Marshal's white-helmeted, white-gaitered M.P.s ("Ike's Snowballs") make periodic sweeps of London looking for A.W.O.L.s. They sift Red Cross clubs, dance halls, pubs, hotels and railway stations check dog tags and furlough papers. In one recent six-hour sweep they caught 104 soldiers absent without leave, three of whom were wearing civilian clothes...
...answer goes right to the heart of the Newsmagazine Idea-for the basic promise we have made you and every other TIME subscriber is not that we will get you the news first, but rather that we will sift through the torrent of news that sweeps past you every day-leave out everything you can afford to skip-and then tell you all the really significant news of the week just as briefly, clearly, memorably and understandingly as we know...
...have made common cause with Great Britain. You cannot therefore disown responsibility for anything that her representatives do in India. You will do a grievous wrong to the Allied cause if you do not sift the truth from the chaff whilst there is yet time. Just think of it. Is there anything wrong in the Congress demanding unconditional recognition of India's independence? It is being said: 'But this is not the time.' We say: This is the psychological moment for that recognition. For then and then only can there be irresistible opposition to Japanese aggression...