Word: gleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow paper cover, drilled for a kitchen nail, is the same as in 1793. Unchanged are its astronomical and tide charts, its page of "Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries." It has articles on molasses silage, fertilizer, a recipe for eggnog pie. Under "December hath 31 days," a reader may still glean such nuggets from the recent past as "Sitting Bull killed in fight between Soldiers and Indians...
...into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
Fleet movements as they occurred were not reported in British papers, by request of the Admiralty. Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet. With charm and polish, Admiralty officials said that they "really did not know" the whereabouts of Britain's famed super-warboats, the Hood, the Rodney and the Nelson...
Perhaps I did not get the full significance of the whole athletic situation living out here in the 'sticks' as I do, but, from what I can glean from the account of it in the CRIMSON, seven minor sports are going to be dropped in order to save $20,000 a year. There are, of course, other points but I am most interested in this...
...very much pleased in the manner in which you have chosen to learn the Harvester business by starting at the bottom. By doing this, you glean the knowledge first hand that will greatly help you in later years. I extend my most hearty approval of your efforts...