Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here Brahman Moonje described minutely atrocious methods employed by the police of British India when dispersing crowds of non-violent Gandhite demonstrators for independence. News editors throughout the U. S. unanimously suppressed these details as unprintable. The gist: after tearing off Gandhite loin cloths, the police perpetrated upon the exposed parts painful indignities...
...real gist of the whole matter", he continued, "is this: The present economic situation in the United States and throughout most of the world is a normal reaction to the strong business development from 1922 to 1928. During this time conditions were unusually good and as this too great prosperity could not last, a new level had to be found. So far we have not attained that level...
Mail Order Cut. To his 10,000,000 customers President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery, Ward & Co. wrote 10,000,000 letters last week. Gist of the letters was that prices had been cut drastically, time payments would henceforth be allowed on purchases of $25 and over. At once President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. told reporters: "Prices in the new autumn catalog of Sears, Roebuck & Co. are the lowest in ten years." Cause: suggested in President Everitt's statement that "we are placing orders for millions of dollars' worth of merchandise at the new low commodity levels...
Punching one of the pale buttons on his big dark desk, II Duce dictated to the secretary who hurried in, the gist of what newsorgans would say next day all over Italy. With this chore attended to the Dictator ate his frugal lunch, returned to his office, locked the door. Then for a time passers-by heard the wild, crashing strains of the Mussolini violin?his "Wooden Woman" as the instrument is called in the argot of the populace...
...prohibition question, the gist of the matter is contained in clause 5. I believe that temperance can best be secured through the incidence of taxation. If liquors were very expensive and light wines very cheap, we should witness an extraordinary change in the habits of the population. Ellery Sedgwick...