Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gist of the conference's opinion was expressed in a report published after their conference: "The publishers are in possession of no facts that lead them to believe that an increase [in newsprint price] is warranted on an economic basis." From Toronto came a report, quickly denied by Premier Taschereau, that the price-rise policy would be reconsidered by Canada's pulpsters...
...President telephoned in to Washington (see p. 13) and told his secretary to tell the world that the Five-Power Parley invitations would go out at once. Conference date: January 20. Orator MacDonald. On Monday, the Prime Minister addressed the Senate. Aside from his keynotes (see above), his gist was this: "Gratifying progress has been made and the conversations are continuing." His mood was this: "Ah, Senators! As long as you conduct your negotiations by correspondence over thousands of miles of sea, you will never understand each other at all. In these democratic days when heart speaks to heart...
...Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
Fortnight ago the gist of the proposed new treaty was indiscreetly hinted before it was complete by Right Honorable Tom Shaw, bullfrog-voiced unstatesmanly Secretary for War in the new British Labor Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, as Prime Minister Mohammed sailed home to Egypt, the British Foreign Office released the text of the agreement which he carried, announced that it represents the "extreme limit" to which the Labor Government will go "to achieve a lasting and honorable settlement of the outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt...
...Well" was, indeed, almost the gist of the lengthy report. Exceptions were admitted in the cases of the coal, cotton, and "grain growing" industries, and in the New England States...