Word: sifting
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...nuggets like the story of Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...
...here to see that justice is done," Judge Reeves explained. "If the reading of the report imperils the Government, the Government ought not to be [in court]." Neither was the FBI to blame; by the nature of its work it received many reports to sift-some true, many false. These reports had been made public through a process beyond its control and over its protests...
Beyond the devotion of presidents and deans lies a greater duty. A university must sift new ideas and new theories. It must always, therefore, be radical in the eyes of some. The ideas may turn out to be faulty; but this must not be made a basis for preventing their full investigation. A university can afford to remove itself from our social fabric to protect those who search in any manner for the truth in any form. It must do so to justify its existence, for a school which lacks freedom to inquire into the nature of truth does...
Black-uniformed security police tried vainly to sift out Communist fifth columnists from among Shanghai's millions. As thousands of refugees streamed in, thousands of others fled...
...Lamar can drill only two complete elevens in open field work, since slowness in dishing out Freshman physical exams is keeping the majority of his candidates out of scrimmages. Four days is hardly ample time to sift out the 111 spirited prospects who still remain...