Word: siftings
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Before the war, applications were handled as they came in, but the school has now decided to sift all applications six weeks before the beginning of the term so that late starters will be under no handicap...
...times the number of items that eventually get printed. But not so very long ago Ted Robinson, our People Editor, did all of them himself. Times have changed. The war has increased people's appetite for world news, and multiplied the work of TIME'S editors, who sift...
Moreover, Miss Johnson is a loving-almost a lustful-stylist. Her fondness for soft focus, for words like flow and sift and soft and grey, makes reading her prose, for all its earnestness and frequent beauty, a little like swallowing feathers...
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...