Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Mills, fagged by a long campaign, insisted that there was nothing unethical in the manner of his reply, the gist of which was: "It is so easy to be wise after the event...
...finally broke up Kansas' civil war, Brown's little army scattered. But Kansas had given him a bigger, more dangerous idea. He disappeared; sometimes not even his family knew where he was. He visited prominent Abolitionists in the East, begged money for his desperate scheme. About the gist of it he kept a close mouth. His sons feared him, distrusted his mysterious plans, tried to shake free of him; but when the day came most of them were with...
...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...
...went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will be submitted to mission boards of the seven churches this winter. Gist of the first four of 20 installments of the report is as follows: Shall foreign missions be continued? Yes, but not in their present form. Missionaries should no longer preach routine hellfire to brown and yellow men. "Western Christianity ... is less a religion of fear and more a religion...
...window on the floor below and shouting: "We want Bonus!" Finally he doused them with a pitcher of ice water and the remark: "There's a bonus for you." Special agents sent from Washington raided five headquarters in two days, seized a good supply of liquor. Members of the gist Division, incensed, wired a protest to Washington, began to campaign against President Hoover. Legionaries were struck with the number of tipsy women on the streets...