Word: winnow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen publicly with their husbands for months were demanding that they were just as essential as Mrs. Khrush (only the celebrated married couples, e.g., Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Dick Powell and June Allyson, got automatic twosome invitations). Things were getting so tough that the host committee, trying to winnow Hollywood's must-be-seen-there thousands down to a sociable 400, flatly decided to discriminate against actors' agents...
While most national magazines are out after new subscribers, so they can raise their advertising rates, the Farm Journal is earnestly doing just the opposite. The 81-year-old monthly is trying to winnow some 220,000 non-farm readers out of its circulation of 3,533,956 and is already paring its ad rates accordingly. Last week readers without R.F.D. addresses were considering a special query from the magazine: "Do you own, operate, live on, work on a farm, or do business with a farmer?" If the answer was no, the subscriber got the choice of a cash rebate...
Says Toynbee: Christians must winnow the nonessential chaff (mostly theology) from the wheat of their tradition, must abandon the "chosen people" claim to the uniqueness of their Saviour and their revelation. They must learn to regard all the higher religions as revelations of God. "The spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure...
...Leverone soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs...
What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...