Word: sifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oxygen and carbon dioxide breathe through. Against direct radiation itself, the porous diffusion board gives no protection. Thick lead or concrete shields must be used to keep out death-dealing gamma rays. Moreover, lining the walls of an average home with the board would not eliminate dust, which could sift in over windowsills and door-jambs. But used in windowless shelters in fallout zones, the diffusion board can shield civilians and military personnel from inhaling or touching radioactive dust, keep vital defense centers going that otherwise would have to be evacuated...
...give doctors quicker service, the A.M.A.'s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry is abandoning its old system: testing every manufacturer's brand of drugs and awarding seals of approval for those that pass. Instead, the council will henceforth sift researchers' reports on new drugs as soon as they are submitted and render a verdict on each as a standard chemical, ignoring brand names...
...unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the turmoil of his mind, and approaches some kind of artistic objectivity toward his life and toward the forces that had shaped him. In this fragment, Wolfe no longer translates his experiences directly into prose, but has begun to sift and temper them through the medium of his nearly mature artistic creativity...
...chapters of the unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the turmoil of his mind, and approaches some kind of artistic objectivity toward his life and toward the forces that had shaped him. In this fragment, Wolfe no longer translates his experiences directly into prose, but has begun to sift and temper them through the medium of his nearly mature artistic creativity...
...Shall We Dance?" As police began to sift the names that crammed three thick ledgers in Rubinstein's study, a glamorous procession of Serge's women friends minced into headquarters. Betty Reed, a platinum blonde soprano, was prostrated, but rallied to give hours of information to detectives. "He wanted desperately to be accepted," said Dorothea McCarthy, a redhead. "I once saw him send a bottle of champagne to a man. He said he had once done something to the man that was unforgivable, and he wanted to try to apologize." The man was unimpressed by Serge...