Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the gist of a three-day powwow held last week by the 61-year-old American Transit Association. In Chicago's famed Palmer House, some 800 transit men heard enough criticism, ominous prediction and plain bad news to make most of them sorry they ever made the trip...
...gist of the gory story is that English physicians have been baffled in attempting to cure Lucy Seward. Played by Claire Birsch, Vassar '44, she is being preyed upon by Dracula. A Dutch specialist, Professor Van Helsing, is called upon to pit his wits against the deadly vampire, who died 500 years ago and has lived on by sucking the blood of his victims...
Finland last week hinted that it was ready to call it quits against Russia, cease being an unofficial Axis ally. Feelers in the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter and the Finnish press were followed by an official Finnish radio broadcast of newspaper editorials. The gist...
Many Germans think that Colonel General Halder had a lot to do with the distribution last year of some curious documents called "Elucidations of Communiqués." Their discreetly veiled gist: "My God, let's be careful; Hitler is trying to be Napoleon." But, when Hitler displaced the Army's commander, Field Marshal von Brauchitsh, the change merely brought Halder closer to his Führer...
These lessons she passes on to her readers in the form of still-life parables, whose gist is that what is good in the world is good because it is useful to life...