Word: threshing
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...fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...Early one bright morning, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge stood on their thresh- old. Up drove automobiles, out piled twoscore laughing, talkative guests. Everyone shook hands and then Mrs. Coolidge said: "Let's go in to breakfast." Immediately the President offered his arm to a tall, deep-voiced, blonde young lady named Charlotte Greenwood and led the party into the state dining-room. Mrs. Coolidge took the arm of a dignified gentleman named Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, then spied a smiling man called Al Jolson and took his arm as well. Said she: "I want two partners for this occasion...
Over the week-end, delegates from fifty colleges will hold discussions, conferences, lectures and all sorts of things to thresh out definitely and finally whether the Eighteenth Amendment ought to be enforced. The chief objection of this New England Citizenship Conference is to influence student opinion on the Prohibition question, and incidentally to give the student body a chance to express itself...
...President favors the general idea of reorganization for efficiency. The Cabinet will try to thresh the matter out with Mr. Brown. If any sort of an agreement can be reached, the plan will then go to the Joint Committee to be whipped into shape for presentation to Congress...
...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...