Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright sunshine loomed a simple fountain swathed in a Union Jack -a memorial to George V given by the inhabitants of England's Windsor and Canada's Windsor. Standing by it with bared head the King gave his address, an essay in modesty and propriety. Gist: "To me personally the memory of my father will always bring the inspiration of a high example." A cord was jerked, the Union Jack fluttered away, a cascade of water sprang from the fountain, a band blared the national anthem...
...Matthews, who for four months has been Madrid correspondent for the New York Times, last week was in London. Released from the strait-jacket of Spanish press censorship, he was able to cable his paper what he considers the amount of help the Spanish Leftists are getting from abroad. Gist: 20,000 to 22,000 foreign volunteers are fighting for the Leftists. Of these 7,000 have been fighting on the Madrid front. All Leftist tanks are Russian, but paid for with Spanish gold. Some 2,000 Spaniards are undergoing training as pilots now, presumably in Russia. At least...
...immediate purpose of the amendment is clearly to give potency to the previous regulation, which expressed the same general policy, but in such a fashion that enforcement was impossible. The gist of both readings is that any scholarship man who violates the ruling will be deprived of his honor or stipend, as the case may be. The important changes are these: the peddling of notes has been prohibited for the whole year round, instead of just before examinations; direct mention has been made of the tutoring schools, to make it clear just what sort of traffic is aimed...
...remaining three cases held the gist of the case: were the steel industry (Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.), the automobile industry (Fruehauf Trailer Co.) and the clothing industry (Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., Inc.) subject to the Wagner Act, obliged to obey the orders of the Labor Board to restore discharged employes, to refrain from intimidating employes against joining a union...
...written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things...