Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report made by engineers to Charles V of Spain, Balboa's royal master. Its gist: such a project was beyond the world's collective engineering knowledge...
...changed "firm attitude" toward further aggression and to have expressed his fear of war. Secretary Hudson agreed, and then, as one economist to another, expounded the theory that only drastic financial measures could better the situation. Before they had talked for many hours, they had drafted an agreement, the gist of which was that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international loan would be granted, although Mr. Hudson later denied that...
...soon as copies of this letter reached Germany, Dr. Goebbels and his press blew up. German papers reprinted parts of the letter (leaving out most of the above quotations) and Dr. Goebbels devoted 3,800 words to a scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities...
Sean O'Casey is the author of Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, many another realistically wild Irish play about the lives of Ireland's poor. Less successful is this "autobiography," which covers only the first twelve years of his life. Gist: "Well, he'd learned poethry and had kissed a girl ... if he hadn' gone into the house, he had knocked at the door...
Meantime, however, President Roosevelt gave no sign of disclaiming third term aspirations. In a letter to the Young Democratic clubs, Mr. Roosevelt repeated the gist of his Jackson Day ultimatum to all Democrats (TIME, Jan. 16). Said he: "No victories are won by shooting at each other. There never was and never will be a political party whose policies absolutely fit the views of all its members. Where men are at variance with the course that their party is taking, it seems to me there are only two honorable courses-to join a party that more accurately mirrors their ideas...