Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went well and his arm was still infact until he came to a package from the University of Masulipatsam, India. After dropping if in the slot he heard a lend crack and the sound of splinging weed, tollened by an avalanche of packages and wood on the other side of the deer. Rearing an explosion he hastily dumped the rest of his lead and left the building an mail...
These examinations should not, of course, be taken as a substitute for the regular college entrance requirements. The College Board examinations, by proving a man's ability to handle the discipline of routine courses, tend to weed out the fly-by-night scholars, who shine on aptitude tests but would do badly when it comes to vegetating in Widener. Thus, despite their value, the scholastic aptitude papers should not be made to take over the whole examination burden...
...containing one-eighth grain of lobeline. This is a drug which smells, tastes and affects the human system almost exactly as nicotine does. Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with true tobacco leaves. Lobeline, however, is not habit-forming as is nicotine. Dr. Dorsey has never found it necessary for a patient to take more than 18 doses of lobeline in any 24 hours. Usually three or four capsules a day have sufficed...
...RETURN OF THE WEED-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2). A cycle of six lyric short stories dealing with the tenants of some desolate New Mexican ruins-an abandoned mission, a crumbling hacienda, deserted farm houses, a filling station- making a slight but effective book, well-illustrated with lithographs by Peter Kurd...
Eight weeks is the normal length of the competition, but men of outstanding ability are often admitted after a shorter period has elapsed. Members of the Editorial Board make every effort in the early weeks of the competition to weed out those candidates who lack any particular promise, so that the time wasted by both the editors and the neophytes is kept at a minimum...