Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Guard, a lawyer by profession, was appointed counsel for the special committee of the Senate which is to investigate charges of inefficiency in the Veterans' Bureau. It will be General O'Ryan's business to sift all the complaints and give the committee only the gist of the charges to investigate...
...opposition to any such department is bitter. The gist of the attack runs: " The whole plan for national control of education in any degree whatever, to the exclusion of local control, is vicious. It means another department, another set of insulating bureaucrats and a complication in the mechanism of administration. The word 'unAmerican' has still a certain meaning, in spite of Mr. Babbitt and his journalistic friends. It describes a point of view out of all harmony with the basic principles of the National Government. And in that sense of the word this entire attempt to place...
...vaccinated or stay home." Such is the gist of a note sent by Chile to the American Commission of Senators and Diplomats who plan to attend the Pan-American conference at Santiago de Chile this month...
These two lines from the "Pursuit of Pamela", a sentimental farce (on the program they call it a comedy) now playing at the Copley give the gist of the plot. The Jewett Players are never quite so delightful as when that farce is tinged with a certain amount of real humor of line and situation, the production is sure to be excellent indeed...
...gist of his remarks was that: "To make a success out of any endeavor one has to give himself intelligently and unflinchingly. Knowledge and concentration are the keynotes of success, therefore to be successful in basketball one must know the rules thoroughly and from A to Z in order to guide himself through forty minutes of play...