Word: siftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this...
...instructors, students, wives, servants, etc. he expects to live near the school. On the site of the present Del Monte golf-course clubhouse, he is planning a new Del Monte Hotel to house non-naval customers. As the Navy officers come and go, he will carefully sift them for permanent residential prospects...
Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49, outlined the scope of activities the NSO intends to encompass. The central body, she said, would sift workings of various member groups and channel them to campuses where effective ideas could be adopted. "Avenues opened to Radcliffe students by the NSO would be limitless," she affirmed...
Enough for All. Now gaunt, grey and ailing, Morgenthau has hired researchers to sift and summarize his giant diary. Last week one of them, Jonathan Grossman, a young (31) history instructor at New York's City College, gave the American Historical Association some revelations from the early years...
...eleven nations at the horseshoe table, including the three (France, Mexico, Poland) which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down...