Word: sifting
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...scenic this year, because they will be digging up the water pipes underneath it. But don't despair, even here the shadow of the New England past can be seen, because the pipe-diggers have uncovered a load of Indian artifacts in their trenches. As the archaelogists sift through the dirt you might contemplate the ironies of the Indians' situation relative to Harvard. The tradition here is very much the white man's layered over everything that had the impunity to come before...
...Life Building and begin work on a fascinating and complex medical story. As sociate Editor Frederic Golden returned to his office and joined the other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story on the approaching birth of the world's first test-tube baby...
...parent publishing company, headquarters is a somber neoclassical building of yellow Worcester stone on Oxford's Walton Street. An unincorporated business without stockholders, the press is owned by the university, and governed by 19 "delegates," Oxford dons picked for their ability to sift through scholarly manuscripts and select for publication the superior one in ten. The press's entire profits, $7.5 million last year, are plowed back into the production of more books...
...towns love their teams fiercely, each in its own style, and the teams, in turn, reflect in a measure the characters of their cities. Denver, wild and woolly jumping-off point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...
...Dunnigan's ruling motive is different; he uses games to collect, sift and pass on information. He is a bald and bony 34-year-old with a quick mind and a quick mouth, and he is one of the nation's two leading designers and publishers of war games. Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI), the firm he started seven years ago, does incredibly complex recreations of such historical battles as Waterloo, Agincourt, Gettysburg, and sells them at the rate of about $2 million worth a year. Avalon Hill Game Co., the other big manufacturer, markets such simulations as Starship...