Word: gleaned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased these days with the brilliant countenances before them...
...entry list for this year's University tennis tournament broke all previous records for the annual event when the list closed yesterday with 185 men entered. In the first day's play yesterday, the ten seeded players came through without a mishap and Coach Harry Cowles expects to glean some excellent material from this array of racquet candidates. Among the most promising of these is M.T. Hill '30, holder of last year's national junior doubles championship. Hill graduated from Loomis School last spring and has been widely heralded as one of the best junior prospects in years...
...meetings and song festivals in behalf of Killer Norris. The avowed purpose of their campaign is to reach the heartstrings of every man and woman in Tarrant County, whence will come the jurors who will try Killer Norris. His congregation has also scheduled a subscription meeting from which to glean funds for paying his lawyers...
From a spectator's point of view, it seems as if savage and nomad tribes must glean abundant fun from their belligerent frolics with civilized nations. It's very likely that they enjoy carnage more than their more straightened adversaries. Yet apart from sedistic impulses, there are other reasons which put the weight of the war upon the civilized nation. It must carry, often overseas, always into wilderness, food; ammunitions and other trappings of a specialized war machine, the usual items of the "white man's burden"; while the unspecialized natives wage their war on a rather homeless homeland...
...know practically nothing about the Indians whose pueblo towns we are excavating. In the northern part of the state there are living descendants of the ancient tribes, but the southern peoples have apparently passed out of existence entirely. From what we have been able to glean of their life, it appears that they were chiefly agriculturists, instead of wandering hunters like most of their contemporary aborigines...