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The Surge isn’t hot about participation in theatrical performances licensed to for-profit entertainment corporations serving as the major early winnower, either.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2019
It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of education and international commerce, a parent’s dream and a student’s misery, winnower of the haves from the have-nots.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2018
Schilling led me to what will be the chocolate processing area to show me two rare, enormous machines: a winnower made in Italy and an 80-year-old Swiss-made melanger.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2011
The beam, a 4-in.-wide strip that demands the greatest precision and exacts the severest penalties for the minutest errors, is the great winnower of women gymnasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, she strikes a jar of liquor with the winnower, then shakes a coconut shell filled with rice against her abdomen; when finished she is handed a live chicken and again she approaches the jar.
From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Fay-Cooper Cole
