Word: strainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that bane of parents and teachers alike, the high-IQ underachiever, a school with strong discipline and a challenging academic program. The counselors often telephone a school, describe the student and ask whether he or she sounds desirable enough to justify formal application. "We try to be a strainer," says Parsons, adding: "Year after year, schools have to see and interview dozens of youngsters trooping through their campuses, who will never get in. We can alleviate a lot of heartache. Parents, instead of traveling to a dozen schools, ten of which are not what they need, now deal with...
...Ardagh chalice did not have a paten or strainer with...
...prevent amateur fortune hunters from scouring the ruins before experts from Dublin's National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...