Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major crimes mentioned, both those he had known of and those he had not. He compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably...
Unique is the opportunity offered Harvard undergraduates and others to spend their Easter vacation at a $5 "Open House" program in New York City. Such was the gist of a circular received from one Clara Thornhill Hammond, styled "Director of the House-party...
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S DILEMMA-Katharine Mayo-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Elaborately researched, mustily told account of an involved cause celebre, now forgotten. The gist: Washington weaseled out of his mandate to execute a British officer in reprisal for the killing of an American sympathizer in Monmouth County, N. J.; by the author of Mother India...
...avoiding all gratuitous advice and insults to foreign governments, and defending the continental home of the U. S. and adjacent waters," pointed out that "the idea of Germany, Italy or Japan sending a fleet of battleships conveying 500,000 soldiers across the seas in majestic array is simply fantastic. . . ." Gist of his advice to the Committee was to "probe to the very bottom" the commitments of foreign policy authorized by the President's armament program before endorsing his proposal...
...been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly...