Word: gleaning
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...babies were no bigger than a man's two fists, and all were tiny. Since their weight at birth was less than 5½ Ibs., they were classed as premature.* From these wrinkled, red blobs of humanity, investigators at the Clinical Research Center for Premature Infants hope to glean basic medical knowledge to be applied in the saving, care and feeding of preemies everywhere...
With regard to the accusation that Oxford undergraduates are lazy and tutorials inadequate, one must remember that the initiative to work is left at Oxford to the individual student, who can glean a very clear idea of what he is expected to study by reading old examination papers. Tutorials play a secondary role: to sharpen one's self-critical faculty. Lectures and classes are there as a dietary supplement and as comic relief...
...book to beguile an idle interval, to start a line of thought, or at least to glean a nugget suitable for dropping into the next dinner-table pause...
Among the world's ailing industries, few are hurting worse than shipbuilding. The demand for shipping that was whetted by the new Persian Gulf oilfields faded abruptly in 1959, when the U.S. put quotas on oil imports. Result: a worldwide glut of cargo space. To glean what new orders there are, the big U.S. and European shipyards have had to slice deeply into their profits to come up with low bids, but they are still losing ground to the front-running, highly efficient and low-paying Japanese...
After a 26-month tour of duty in the Pentagon and with the far-ranging U.S. armed forces, TIME'S Military Correspondent Edwin Rees flew into Moscow to glean what he could about the armed forces matched against the U.S.-the army, navy, air and missile forces of the U.S.S.R. His report...