Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englanders, but not to the Kex Club. This sad error, however, was soon to be transcended. The Kex of the ancient Greeks was not a member of the gymnospermous order Coniferales; it is, rather, a member of the dicotyledonous family, Umbelliferae--a close relative of that charming weed, the Queen Anne's Lace. Ludlorous as this error seems to the botanist, it must be remembered that the Kex Club probably included no botanists in its membership, a fact less surprising than their presence would have been...
...March 1933-on the President's say-so and almost with its eyes closed. That measure, often acclaimed as the Administration's longest single step forward toward governmental reform, authorized the President to reduce the pay of government employes by 15%, to cut veterans' pensions and weed out those who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War. Budget savings of $625,000,000 were important but more important was the principle of administrative instead of legislative control of pensions and wages...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...
...company of the following young ladies whose names appeared on the list of registered guests: Billy Burke, Ellnor Bean, Betty Button, Alice Fair, Florence Fine, Grace Frank, Dorothy Golly, Cynthia Jump, Georgia Ann Inksetter, Charity Mason, Elizabeth Pettibone, Marion Romp, Minnie Phift, Betsy Ross, Mary Power, Sophie Tucker, Phoebe Weed, Jean Spooner, Letta Turtie, Ima Smack, Mae Weston, Margaret Will, Mary Wood, and Helen Wont. There are 856 girls registered as guests at the Carnival--now wouldn't the statisticians have a good time laying them...
...turn your efforts to some other branch of study." Few U. S. university presidents have dared speak out thus frankly about the social hurdle which has been set up before their overburdened medical schools. Unable to eliminate brilliant applicants on the basis of marks, some medical school boards now weed them out for pimply faces, loud voices, awkward manners or unpressed pants...