Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major private testing services disagree on the effectiveness of presoaks. Consumer Reports concluded that Biz and Axion did little better than regular detergents in removing many stains, but Consumer Bulletin found that the new products "can surely help turn out a brighter, whiter wash." To sift the various claims, the housewife would need the advice of a chemist. In any case, the onslaught of enzymes, by adding still another step-and another product-to the laundry process, makes her washday chores both longer and costlier...
...situation at Wisconsin -- a stalemate from the beginning -- remains a stalemate now. Wisconsin has had its protest this year; the Guard has gone home. The 13 black demands will now go before university and legislative committees where a few will be adopted in a modified form while university officials sift through demonstration pictures to single out black leaders for punishment...
They were what bus drivers read before starting a run, not opening up the doors, while you stood outside in the cold. But having no alternative I began to sift through the pile. The authors' names were all unfamiliar, and the cover photos all dirty...
...pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas, the custom has largely fallen into desuetude since Suetonius, who as the Emperor Hadrian's private secretary had the opportunity-and encouragement-to sift imperial dossiers. Had the practice been followed, history might read quite differently...
After Law Dean Erwin Griswold resigned last fall to become U.S. Solicitor General, Pusey asked all 80 members of the law faculty for suggestions on what directions the school should take and who Griswold's successor should be. Pusey also had to sift through proposals from alumni, consulted with fellow members of the Harvard Corporation, polled the 30-man board of overseers by telephone and telegraph. He followed the same procedure in seeking a Divinity School dean to replace retiring Samuel H. Miller...