Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 9 you give an illuminating review of the various farm relief plans. On most of them you offer brief and intelligent comment, but you present Farmer Campbell's plan without comment, which makes me half afraid that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated...
...given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall we say charmer...
Business men who ask these questions had waited to hear what the Secretary of Commerce would say this year. Secretary Hoover published his report for fiscal 1927 last week. The gist of his generalizations was that never in the world's history had a nation worked and lived so well as did the U. S. last year; never was prosperity so solidly founded...
Last week President Frank said there would be some 120 students (men), housed with their faculty under one roof. They plan to study civilizations for two years, then to undertake the usual general or professional college courses leading to degrees. "The gist of the course of study in the Experimental College," he said, "is that it will represent a study of situations rather than a study of subjects. . . . The aim is to keep informal the process of learning...
Retraction. Thus Mr. Ford, handsome in the extent of his apologies, followed up his general apologies to all Jews a fortnight ago (TIME, July 18) by this particular apology to Lawyer Sapiro. The gist of this retraction...