Word: gleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able to glean and store a warehouse of facts; one of the reasons that he was so valuable in the national campaign of 1932 was because he gave such fine speeches extemporaneously...
...setup is based on having two drives a year aimed at roughly $5 per person, instead of the former single drive aimed at $10. This is expected to glean more money...
Phillips Brooks House will try once again to glean 200 pints of blood from the University and Radcliffe when it holds its second blood drive of the year on May 2 and 3. A drive conducted last fall flopped when nearly 100 potential donors were refused at PBH because they were either under ago or lacked the parents consent necessary for men between the ages...
...victory for the manufacturers and the distributors has been the near-elimination of slugs from the intake of the machines. Pre-war games used to glean an inordinate number of foreign coins, carefully shaped discs of tinfoil, and Louisiana sales-tax tokens. But the application of electronic research to the coin slot has made it so selective that it is now apt to balk at a well-worn Buffalo nickel unless it is carefuly coaxed into position. Other complicated circuits have eliminated a former unfortunate tendency for the machines to run away and start distributing free games indiscriminately...
Koahey mentioned that they were thinking of founding a theater school through which aspiring Thespians could glean a working knowledge of the stage...