Word: gleaning
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Paring down his squad to 12 men and anxiously awaiting the termination of fall sports, from which he hopes to glean valuable material, the University's new basketball mentor, Bill Barclay, this week accelerated preparations for the opening of the Varsity basketball season on December 7 against M.I.T...
...Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
...planning of their displays. They wanted to obtain letters to "Jay" from all the writers concerned, showing examples of their most informal work. Unfortunately, this task was not so easy as it might sound. Collecting the letters was simple enough, but it was quite a job to glean the proper ones for the exhibit. It appears that the average poetry writer of today, when he is producing in his odd moments, customarily uses a vocabulary that is not fit material for the Harvard Poetry Room...
Gathered to glean what encouragement they could for civilization and the life of the mind were 140 college presidents, 500 scholars from many lands. But empty were seats reserved for British scholars. And when Jacques Maritain, famed Catholic philosopher of the France Ben Franklin loved, rose as the first speaker in Penn's conference of scholars, he spoke not as a representative of a sister republic but as a refugee...
...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...