Word: glean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More importantly, though, the team as a whole would see the work ethic of a couple of NBA-bound players. The Grant Hills of the world do not get to the NBA solely on innate ability, and I am sure that the Crimson could glean some habits off of them...
...young man, Dmitri Shostakovich had a very skewed idea of what the term "jazz" meant. Living in the sheltered climes of Lenin's young Soviet Union, Shostakovich could only glean origins and aspects of form from cultured friends from the West and bits of historical information that happened to come...
...port. This time Barnes, betting things will be different, has rented a room in a "strategically located" brothel with a roof that should command a good view of the first attack. Miami bureau chief Booth spent several days % last week at the army's decrepit general quarters, trying to glean what plans the country's military rulers might be making -- either to avoid an invasion by finally stepping down or to organize their troops to resist. Diederich touched based with longtime sources in and around Port-au-Prince, looking for cracks in the army's support...
...opponents, barely got past the House last year. This year it may not even lift off the pad of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Influential Chairman GEORGE BROWN, worried about the project's effect on other items in the nasa budget, has told the President to glean some money from elsewhere for the station -- perhaps from foreign aid or environmental programs -- or else Brown's pivotal vote for the project will stay grounded...
From this, all Harvard students should glean a valuable lesson in humility. Having come mostly from environments where they were solitary shining stars, they should learn from their experiences here the dangers of arrogance--no matter how talented you are, someone is always more so. The knowledge should make them more mature, more aware of their place in the scheme of things...