Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Heresy. U.S. Catholics were deeply hurt when Leo XIII, in an Apostolic Letter to Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons in 1899, at last felt it necessary to condemn heretical "Americanism." Gist of the alleged errors: "Spiritual direction . . . was less necessary since in an era of liberty, the Holy Ghost would guide the individual soul. . . ." U.S. bishops loudly denied that such heresy had ever tainted U.S. Catholicism...
Composers, athletes, billiard champions, authors, male cinema stars, philosophers, explorers, painters, scientists all achieve their top performances in their early thirties. This discouraging news for ambitious oldsters of 40 was reported by Psycholo gist Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio University in the current Scientific Monthly...
After four days of cordiality and handshaking, and just before General de Gaulle took off for a brief visit to Hyde Park and New York, there came a joint formal statement from the White House. Its gist: the two leaders had found "a fundamental harmony between French and American aims," and had agreed on "even closer cooperation in the future...
...Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...
...Navy, suddenly discovering that this feeling was typical, began a campaign to make amends for its bungled selling job. All Hands, official Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine, last week published a letter to all Reservists from square-shooting, popular Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The gist: the Navy would need perhaps 30,000 more Regular officers than it has now; it hopes to get them from the Reserves...