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chaff
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World War II was over and millions of Americans were returning home and re-entering the work force, which gave a Los Angeles psychologist an idea for helping companies separate the wheat from the chaff.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS SORT OUT APPLICANTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
As a former staff member at an Indian Residential School, and having worked on the fringe of the residential school system for some time, I am angry and frustrated at the Anglican Church of Canada because of its inability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Words of truth by Steele, O. William / Anglican Journal
You correctly caution that one must be careful to separate the wheat from the chaff and that there is much disinformation about.
Disinformation campaigns by Muhlenberg, John D.S. / The New American
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