Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...
Purpose of this routine: to weed out the impossibles before students go on to more advanced training at Pensacola or at the Navy's two new training bases at Jacksonville and Corpus Christi. Since it costs the Navy some $15,000 to educate a pilot for officer duty with the fleet, it pays the Navy to pick & choose...
...Meagres sometimes sound like a hurdy-gurdy. You can hear a South American catfish "growl" for a hundred feet when he breaks water. Even Homer's fabled song of the sirens is fishy to Interior: it was probably just a shoal of weakfish warbling their weed notes wild...
Such questions were part of Army's new General Classification Test, streamlined lineal descendant of the World War I "Alpha" test, intended to help weed out hopeless misfits, keep pastry cooks from being assigned to blacksmithing duties or vice versa, bring to light bright boys who might make good officers...
...departments vary as to their honors requirements. In some fields a student must be in group three, while in others a few students in group five will be permitted to write theses. Some departments permit students with mediocre grades to sign up for honors, and then weed them out if they don't show a genuine interest in their work...