Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...united. In his encyclical of last fortnight, the Pope earnestly beckoned to his "su-preme chair of truth" all non-Roman sects, with special aim in the beckon to Eastern Christians (TIME, Jan. 4). Well-informed as he is, the Pope doubtless knew what was to be the gist of an official Anglican-Orthodox report which would be made public in a few days. This report, out last week, was the work of a commission of Orthodox prelates and Church of Englanders. It constituted a further, semi-final step in an Anglican-Orthodox rapprochement begun many years ago,* given impetus...
Against each assertion by Mr. Gardiner the committee set an answer drawn from Government records. The total of these answers made up the best argument extant for the Hoover Naval policy. The gist of important comparisons...
...method is impressionistic. He makes no attempt to answer such comparatively impertinent questions as: Did his hero ever marry Vivien? What did he do for a living? What caused his death? But in a space seven times as short as an ordinary novel Aiken has compressed the emotional gist of a man's life. His method owes something to James Joyce, father of synthetic catalogs; but Aiken has simplified Joyce's method. His manner is sometimes reminiscent of Thomas Stearns Eliot, godfather of modern sophisticated verse...
...from Washington. It was the kind of dispatch President Hoover was glad to see in print, though nowhere was he personally mentioned. Knowing readers suspected White House inspiration, under the Hoover system of supplying correspondents with "background" which they are not privileged to attribute directly to the President. The gist of the story was as follows...
...House, the packed galleries listened breathlessly. Everyone knew the gist of what he had to say. To save his country, the little Chancellor was about to saddle Britain, heaviest taxed nation on earth, with great additional burdens. Everyone knew that the Dole was to be cut 10%. Everyone knew that the wages of all government servants were to be slashed. Everyone knew that the income tax was to be raised. But how much...