Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the hero of that worst Arctic tragedy in U. S. history was informed that Congress had voted him its Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after...
...bowels. But they do not attack the teeth of a masticator until his natural immunity to them drops below a certain level. Seven out of every hundred people retain such immunity throughout life; ten are born lacking it entirely; and 83 retain it only if they eat sensibly. Gist of Dentist Bunting's remarks last week before the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters...
Appearing on sports pages along with pictures of himself, interminable sob stories, compliments from New York's Mayor LaGuardia, statistics of his life earnings, and his adopted daughter's views on Paris fashions, this letter last week contained the gist of a story that has preoccupied U. S. sports editors since the baseball season ended last October. It was George Herman Ruth's answer to the offer...
...gist of Mr. Hoover's remarks: he favored going back on a gold basis, paying 59? in gold to any holder of a devalued dollar. He argued that such action would reduce unemployment, give business a rush of confidence, stop the spread of "inflation poison" in the national blood...
...brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words as these...