Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raising it before trial. Southern resentment against Judge Lowell quickly boiled to a climax in the House of Representatives. Two days after the Boston ruling Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, whose district includes Loudoun County, arose and solemnly impeached the Massachusetts jurist for high crimes and misdemeanors. The gist of seven counts against him was that Judge Lowell...
...audience understood more than the gist of Sir Henry's discourse. He stood behind a lectern in the amphitheatre's pit, tall, domed and ruddy, looking like a vicar in a pulpit, and in a rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their...
...could perhaps be applied to the conduct of the course. With hours for work as limited as they are in Mallinckrodt, it often seems that too much time is taken up in the lectures, splitting the afternoon as they do. There is often an unpleasant feeling that though the gist of the lecture has taken but forty minutes to give, the class meets at two and therefore could not possibly be let out before three, even when the lecturer has nothing more...
This is the gist of an argument as familiar as it is logical--pathetically logical because pragmatic considerations engulf the ideal. It is a stirring claim that for the good of society the college should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity...
Scion of the wealthy copper mining family which founded Douglas, Ariz. "Lew" Douglas was graduated from Amherst in 1916, studied metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding...