Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these in three years.* The best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march...
...professor of sociology at Smith; Dr. Kimball Young, assistant professor of psychology at Clark who leaves next month for Oregon; Dr. Harry E. Barnes, professor of history at Clark, who leaves in a few weeks for Smith; Dr. Carroll C. Pratt, instructor in psychology and philosophy at Harvard. The gist of the charges published was that the president had purposely neglected and injured the famous graduate schools in favor of his own department of geography, and that the president had weakened the morale of the faculty and destroyed that of the student body by personal untruthfulness and shifty methods...
...terms of the Anglo-Russian commercial agreement, and, of course, with seizing the trawler. The note was a virtual ultimatum, which incensed the Soviet Government. "Don't dictate," say the Bolsheviki, "we are ready to negotiate on equal terms, but we will not be led!" That is the gist of the Soviet reply to Curzon. Much capital has been made out of a British warship, which is now in the White Sea, but it is certain that neither Britain nor Russia has any intention of going to war. The most that can happen is the abrogation of the trade...
...gist of his defense is that he is accountable to no one for his financial operations, and he denied that he had had a hand in producing the last deflation in the value of the mark...
...Alfred Mond took the floor against him. The gist of Sir Alfred's remarks was that it is easy to pick holes in any system. He accused the laborites of using economic language too vaguely. The bill will come up again for discussion after the Easter recess...