Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the land last week thousands upon thousands of proud fathers & mothers were preparing to attend the college graduations of their sons & daughters. In Leominster, Mass, the Rev. Nathan Gist packed his bags, set out for California to see his 80-year-old mother graduate this week from Claremont College...
...plot-walloper, Author Slesinger usually goes at the gist of the matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...
...Soviet press was quick to echo the gist of Stalin's speech last week. Announcing immediate plans for the construction of three planes just as big to be called Maxim Gorki II, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, the official Pravda cried...
...Government's position that the Constitution's commerce clause empowered Congress to regulate intrastate business when it "affected" interstate affairs had by now become classic. But this time the classic argument was being put by the New Deal's high legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible...
These last week were incidents of the most famed horse race in the U. S., the Kentucky Derby, run for the Gist year, watched by a crowd of 60,000, some standing on peach baskets and some in $50 seats, over a mile-and-a-quarter track at Churchill Downs, Louisville...