Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy meat for grey-flanneled, hawk-eyed men from nearby Cambridge will be the 1450 women from Wellesley, returned to their studies after a ten-weeks, Fuel-saving layoff, if what Mary C. Lyons, of Lake Waban's publicity office, says is true. Gist of her lengthy (1300 word), report was that her girls had worked hard--"filled seed--packages"--in the experimental interim...
...recognition has been the contention that, while the U.S. might disapprove of Argentine neutrality, Britain favored it. This likewise was a theme for Axis propaganda. The official Information Bulletin of Argentina's Foreign Ministry recently reprinted excerpts from an article in a London periodical about Argentine neutrality. The gist of the article, in the Argentine version, was that everything was all right so far as Britain was concerned...
...Gist of the Hall sermons: pray, drive the devil out, live right, read the Bible. Pastor Hall never asks for donations, but he gets enough for rent, food, rummage-sale clothes and stray dollars to give away "if the person seems worthy." When he tires, three elderly women spell him, but the Pastor is apt to preach from early morning to midnight. Says he: "My only worry is that I'm so happy I hate to go to bed at night...
Since General Gerhardt formally activated the gist ("Wild West") Division at Camp White last August, some of his junior officers have developed convenient hernias or obtained transfers to softer outfits; but he himself takes raw men under pack five miles through the rain in one hour, nine miles in two, finishes at the double, insists that every officer under him be able to do the same. Even Gerhardt's chaplains practice marksmanship, swim icy rivers, make themselves physical as well as moral exemplars...
...Join the Army or Navy and get a college education." Such was the gist of a solemn announcement by the American Council on Education last week. The A.C.E. and the armed forces had cooked up a scheme whereby U.S. colleges will give soldiers and sailors credits toward college degrees, for education they get in service...