Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME cannot agree with Reader Emmett that the deletions from her letter changed its gist one jot or detracted one iota from its cogency...
Elliott's views on international affairs-which are not likely to impress many readers-are pretty much of a piece with those of Ralph Ingersoll, Louis Adamic, or Henry Wallace. The gist of them is that the U.S. has "deliberately" betrayed F.D.R.'s hopes and plans...
...Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four-page letter to Harry Truman. Its gist: get rid of Schwellenbach, or else...
Although TIME'S footnotes serve many different functions, our editors have found them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long...
...Senate last week rose Montana's James E. Murray, wealthy, New Dealing chairman of a special Senate Committee on Small Business. In his hand he had a 359-page report on "Economic Concentration and World War II." Its gist: Big Business, fattened on prime war contracts, was now bigger. He underlined this with a bit of demagogy...