Word: gleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospective publishers will have an ample chance to glean many words of wisdom at tonight's Placement Office career conference in Eliot House...
Saber practice on the 40-by-6 foot regulation strip is supplemented by slashing at a sword-wielding canvas dummy, while epee and foilmen glean their largest off-strip brushups by lunging at quarter-inch targets taped on the wall...
...Gleaners. Prewar, the Soviet zone was always a food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
Moore, who was in various parts of the British Isles and Europe during the war, plans to go to all the places where he and other Americans were stationed, including stops in Northern Ireland and Scotland. At present he is trying to contact men who were in England to glean from them the names of places--or in special cases even people--that they would like to hear about. The Globe will run requests during June to try and get him such information, but he would like Harvard men to write...
...Newsweek cover is only distinguishable from the original magazine by the modest announcement: "A Harvard Lampoon Parody." The type, the pictures, the features and the make-up are a perfect facsimile. But the contents are about as humorous as Newsweek's own weekly output of printed matter, which can glean only smiles of agreement in a parlor-car to Chicago...