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“It meant people, not in the mass but individuals, who did me the honor of inviting me into their homes; people to whom I was no longer a name filtered through the wordage of imaginative press agents, but a person whom they knew.”

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

I see Facebook as an experiment in "filtered connections" in social networking.

Facebook Generation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There is only one unexpected benefit of this otherwise noxious weed: its roots and leaves concentrate within them substantial amounts of polluting heavy metals which they have filtered from the lake.

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

There is only one unexpected benefit of this otherwise noxious weed: its roots and leaves concentrate within them substantial amounts of polluting heavy metals which they have filtered from the lake.

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

It would have been around 1957, when I was 5, and the word filtered down to my midget level from the tough older brothers of my little friends.

Forever Elvis 2008

Note: Trypsin, made in solution and then sterile-filtered, is used to transfer populations of cells from one culture dish to the next.

Having Fun on Valentine's Day, Scientifically Nick Anthis 2006

Biodiesel cars can run on plain filtered coconut oil

Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005

Fifth Avenue and the word filtered here and there that they were bound for a Red meeting at Tolliver Hall.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

In the suburbs the hiker finds the long brown path leading wherever he chooses, by day, in filtered sunlight, or by evening, in the midst of the rhythmic orchestration of tree frogs.

Are Cities Dead? 1969

In the suburbs the hiker finds the long brown path leading wherever he chooses, by day, in filtered sunlight, or by evening, in the midst of the rhythmic orchestration of tree frogs.

Are Cities Dead? 1962