Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called immediately on Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara, sniffed indignantly at the latter's suggestion that all official moves be postponed until after a Cuban "judicial investigation." Next day he delivered his Government's formal note, a message conspicuous for its lack of diplomatic phrases. Its gist...
...Gist of objections raised before the Foreign Relations Committee...
...took no interest in sports "because they were organized, because they had rules, because they had results." When he won a scholarship at Jesus College (partial to the Welsh) he lived at home except for one term, read voraciously, often 18 hours a day, learned how to get the gist out of any book in half an hour. Unprepared for his finals, he was advised to submit a special supplementary thesis, and went to Syria to study the Crusaders' castles there?alone, on foot, in European dress. He came back four months later with sketch-plans and photographs of every...
When this news was flashed across the continent, President Hoover ordered out his special train a day in advance, started back to Washington at top speed. Before he left California, however, he dispatched a momentous telegram to President-elect Roosevelt at Albany. After giving his successor the gist of the British note, he declared...
...gist of His Lordship's report was that "It would be dangerous to leave the Monarchy as the only hereditary element in the Constitution...