Word: sifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founded 1805) is the oldest art show in the U.S. Nowadays, the academy also tries to make it one of the nation's most conscientiously representative. Philadelphia's method is to invite most of the country's established painters and sculptors to exhibit, then let juries sift the work of newcomers and the uninvited. Last week, after looking over 2,331 pieces of U.S. art and weeding them down to 442, the academy called in the public...
What was glutaril cas. 20%? At week's end, the police had not yet succeeded in getting an analysis of what was left in the bottle. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues guessed that it might be an antibiotic of the chloromycetin group. They were helping police sift through the dead man's papers, to see if Dr. Pauletta had left any notes about...
...student body and make it even more well-rounded. The IBM's spew forth a thumbnail description of a worthy undergraduate every seven and one half minutes. Armed with this information, the Open recruiters converge on the area (the machines always specify an area, though not the name) and sift the local high school youth for the man who mostly nearly approximates the IBM ideal. Once he is found the recruiters send in a revised description of the man who is coming, and the IBM's revise their future selections in view of the men who have already been chosen...
...fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters ("This club couldn't punch its way out of a paper bag with a crowbar"). And last week he went after Rogers Hornsby (now managing at Seattle) as manager...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...