Word: glean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used...
...fate, and now Charles E. Alexander, of "The Boston Evening Transcript," has resigned to seek the ease with honor to which his thirty-five years as absolute arbiter of Boston society entitle him. Perhaps only Bostonians will recognize the cataclysmic significance of this, but even the outer world can glean some idea of its implications when it is stated that Mr. Alexander was the society editor of "The Transcript" and as such held Back Bay, Brookline and the North Shore in bonds transcending those of foudal authority...
Present to glean what grains of publicity he could by declaring, "I am satisfied with the new theatre!" was George Bernard Shaw. Thoroughly enjoyed, spontaneously applauded by the Stratford Theatre's first audience last week were Parts I & II of Shakespeare's Henry IV, announced as "the most representative of the entire range of Shakespeare's genius...
Attaching weights to the animal increases the pull, while attaching a hydrogen-filled balloon decreases the gravitational effect. The results of the experiment enable the investigator to glean some information of the different nervous mechanisms that enable the animal to discriminate the changes that are exerted upon it by the changing gravitational forces...
...student will have the opportunity to learn the actual conditions of his work. The fact that a number of established architects in Boston will attend the course indicates its practical value. It can also be of service to undergraduates who are considering architecture as a career. The uninitiate may glean from it an idea of the profession which he would not get from more technical courses. The wide experience of Mr. Charles Lench, who will conduct the course, is a guarantee that it will be profitably conducted...